Re: Re: Suggestion about native DB support.

On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Yasuo Ohgaki wrote: > Garland Foster wrote: > > I have a strong feeling that it would be a very good idea to ship PHP (*nix and Win) with > > some native, BUNDLED > > support for some DBM-files format. It can be very nice to have a native set of DBM-like > > functions available in PHP > > no matter the operating system or how PHP was compiled. > > > > I think gettext module is also a good one to be enabled by default > or recommend users strongly. It relies on an external library, so that won't be a good thing. gettext is not available for every platform, and we are not going to bundle it. > > Most I18N(?) aware PHP applications are not using gettext and > using slower approch, define messages as PHP vars or constants. > > Enabling gettext by default may change this situation in the > long run. Do we need to prevent everybody from shooting in their feet? I don't think so. Users who need it will find out about gettext. > Since we cannot bundle everything, how about have a logo program > for a standard php installations? If users confirm standard > requirements, give permission to use PHP standard logo, for > example. How would this help them, and what does it give us (The PHP team)? Derick --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Did I help you? http://www.derickrethans.nl/link.php?url=giftlist Frequent ranting: http://www.derickrethans.nl/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- PHP: Scripting the Web - derick@php.net All your branches are belong to me! SRM: Script Running Machine - www.vl-srm.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------------