Re: Encryption Routines and PHP 5.1+
| From: | Derick Rethans | Date: | Fri, 04 Mar 2005 11:59:29 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Encryption Routines and PHP 5.1+ | ||
| References: | 1 2 3 | Groups: | php.internals |
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On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Matthew Charles Kavanagh wrote:
> Derick Rethans wrote:
> > This is definitely not planned - we rather not bundle any library, and
> > definitely not an LGPL library.
> >
> > Reinventing the wheel by providing encryption routines in PHP does not
> > make sense really. PHP is meant to be a glue to provide access to
> > libraries, and not meant to be reimplementing them.
>
> The issue in my mind is one of portability. It would be nice, as a
> developer working in PHP, to be able to rely on functionality like
> encryption (and other unrelated goodies) being available on Joe User's
> $5/month webhost who don't go around installing fancy packages.
Get a better webhost. If you want to use PHP's more advanced (and less
used) extensions you need to pick a better host.
And CC the mailinglist!
Derick