Re: mbstring and 4.3.0

On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, Ilia A. wrote: >Since I've gotten involved in this conversation would like to add my opinion >to the tally. I too believe that at least at this point, the mbstring >extension should not be enabled by default. >There are two reasons for this decision: > >1) Majority of PHP users do not require this functionality. Most PHP programs >are developed with non-multibyte languages in mind and mbstring only adds >unnecessary overhead. People who need it can easily enable it or ask their >ISPs to enable it, if they had done so already. > >2) mbstring extension is a fairly complex piece of code and iirc is the >youngest extension of this magnitude that is enabled by default. Although the >extension developers are very prompt at fixing bugs, the fact they need to do >this fairly frequently, at least to me, implies that the extension is not yet >mature enough to be enabled by default. Also, judging by the number of >changes in the CVS to the extension, a lot of new functionality was added to >the extension recently and has not been tested outside the pre process. Maybe >by next PHP release is made, it will be better tested and more stable. I must (still) agree. +1 for making it disabled for now.. (people who need it, already know to use --enable-mbstring with 4.2.3) --Jani