RE: [PHP-DEV] mbstring
| From: | Melvyn Sopacua | Date: | Mon, 02 Sep 2002 12:50:24 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP-DEV] mbstring | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.dev |
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On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, James Cox wrote:
JC>>> > On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, James Cox wrote:
JC>>> >
JC>>> > JC>>> Still, I think it makes more sense to enable, not disable.
JC>>> > What extensions are enabled by default anyhow? I am not aware of
JC>>> > a list. Perhaps that's why i get odd errors when working with
JC>>> > php, because there are extensions i didn't expect built in.
JC>>> >
JC>>> > ./configure --help | egrep -- '--(without|disable)'
JC>>> >
JC>>> > exception to the rule being mysql.
JC>>> >
JC>>> Yes. It was a rhetorical question --
I believe you :-)
JC>>> i wonder if this is worth another page
JC>>> in the manual?
Definetely. Remember register_globals? You just can't mention it often
enough.
Further more if people can count on this behaviour, they can more easily
create buildscripts. But then mysql shouldn't be the exception and a new
module, can never be enabled by default in a new release (don't recall
this ever happening, but still).
--
Melvyn.