Re: The future of PHP -- accessory libraries

Hi folks I asked my ISP to flesh out their negative comments about adding libraries to PHP. This is their reply - is there anything in this, or are they misunderstanding the situation? >>>>>>>>> We run servers. We want to compile stuff from source, for obvious reasons! As such, the question is simple and obvious: why does so much in PHP rely on the core's compile-time. Why can't there be run-time or DSO inclusion later on, as with Perl. Basically, PHP has really screwed up in this monolythic design which was all very well when it was a simple templating system, but now it's grown to a full-grown language, the scalability, flexibility and namespace issues are becoming untennable. I note that something called "Pear" appears in later compilations of the PHP core. I assume this is some attempt at including Perl's library system and, eventually, a CPAN-a-like? >>>>>>>>>>> I'm not so sure why they prefer to compile from source - why wouldn't they trust a professional distro? Geoff Caplan