Re: mbstring and 4.3.0

On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, Ilia A. wrote: > mbstring has many dedicated developers whom are doing excellent maintaining > and upgrading this extension. Which at the moment makes mbstring very much a > work in progress, there is hardly a day without at least one or two CVS > commits to it. Since this is a work in progress, it is simply not safe to > enable it by default if we want to claim any sort of stability for 4.3.0 > release. There is a chance it'll work out, but IMHO there is even a greater > chance it will cause problems like it did in 4.2.3 with mangling of POST > requests, 4.3.0 will have more then enough new stuff as is. > Perhaps by the next major release, mbstring will be a lot more mature and > thoroughly tested in production enviroment. At that point we can discuss this > issue again and consider whether this extension has merit for most users and > based on that decide whether or not to enable it by default. I very much agree and am extremly reluctant to have mbstring enabled by default, even though it is a very promising extension. -Andrei http://www.gravitonic.com/ "When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes." -- Erasmus