Re: PATCH Deprecated modules patch.

You should always use '--disable-all' as first option and then enable what you need. No idea what your patch was about but it propably was useless anyway. --Jani On Wed, 23 Apr 2003, Michael Loftis wrote: >I've done a small patch (no ./configure option at this time) that allows >you short-circuit loading of modules. mw_deprecated_extensions is the new >config variable, set as a PHP_INI_SYSTEM restriction level. It has a >little bit of OS specific code, only tested on Linux, should work on any >Unix though. Not tested under Win32 and probably won't work there. > >In order to get it to work at this point you need to #define >MW_DEPRECATED_EXTENSION > >I don't know that this is the best way to do this but it seems that if the >team wants to keep moving modules into the core we need to make a method >for large web hosts (like my employer Modwest here) to be able to make a >list of modules to not try to load so as to make moving between versions >somewhat more transparent. > >The patch against 4.3.1 is attached, I welcome any comments or suggestions >for improvement. > >I do fully agree with Sascha that what is *really* needed is something else >entirely, but this is a stop-gap measure that we're going to use in the >meantime. Extensions should be able to inform of their status at any given >time. > >This is a hack but until such time that a better method is employed it >would be nice to have something like this. I'll be making further changes >so that PHP loads an extra INI file specifically just so we can put the >mw_deprecated_extensions directive in a file by itself and thus not have to >touch everyone's INI files here. > >For us though compiling more and more into the core statically poses a >performance and scaling problem. If we can save startup time we always do, >which is part of the reason we use dynamic extensions, instead of compiling >in everything anyone would/might want we make them as modules. > >-- >Michael Loftis >Modwest Sr. Systems Administrator >Powerful, Affordable Web Hosting > -- <- For Sale! ->