Re: The future of PHP -- accessory libraries

Hi folks Here is my ISPs comments on the advice from Rasmus: Rasmus wrote: >> >> Well, I tend to prefer compile from source as well. I guess they simply >> don't realize that you can compile most of the extensions as shared >> libraries and configure what should be loaded at runtime in the php.ini >> file. >> They replied: >Very interesting. I have to be honest, I never realised this. I've tended >to want to leave php.ini well alone - I guess I'm allergic to the .ini >suffix ;-) So it looks that Rasmus was right when he said: >> So it looks like this is mostly a documentation issue. We have not done a >> good job educating the ISPs out there. My ISPs are pretty serious guys, and they do RTFM. So if they don't understand this, I suspect the problem is pretty widespread. Perhaps the documentation group could take a look at this? Nice to know it's a documentation issue and not a basic problem with the architecture - much easier to put right! Geoff Caplan