Re: Default extensions (was: mbstring)

On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, Andrey Hristov wrote: > > i'm +1 for that if it means that first it disables everything, and > > then you enable stuff bit by bit... > > --disable-all is good for me for one reason - to speed dev builds. > When I work on arrays I don't want to link xml, mysql and so on. I've > disabled them in config.nice but --disable-all is better because it > won't be needed to search which modules I can disable. --disable-all > can be good for some sysadmins that run large websites and want to > have only that they need - disabling all and adding what is needed > thus decreasing the size of the binary. yes, and as I pointed out Jani got this almost working. > The idea about ncurses based setup is very good and I hope "we" will found > the man/men who will do it. Yeah, it's nice... but no time :) > > On the other hand it won't be good if mysql is disabled by default. I > saw one reason here : endless bug reports about mysql_connect() more > than these about Apache2 builds. Another reason : mysql is easy to > install on most platforms (mostly windows) and because PHP is easy to > learn (good curve) - PHP is the choice as the language to write > scripts. Also I think that enabling postgresql support by default > will be good. Thus we will provide support not only for one database > in the builds. Mysql is overpromoted and PG stays in the dark (this is > my opinion). Well, for something to enable by default you need to bundle the library, and I don't think it's a good idea to bundle another RDBMS client library... 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------