Re: Too many extensions bundled with the Windows Installer?
| From: | Frode E. Moe | Date: | Mon, 02 Jul 2007 07:56:46 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Too many extensions bundled with the Windows Installer? | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.internals |
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On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 22:56:57 +0100, Scott MacVicar wrote:
> The Windows Installer seems to allow someone to enable just about every
> extension that can be built, roughly about 118. It seems that most people
> assume that they need every feature of PHP to work, especially thsoe in
> Windows.
>
> I propose that we disable all experimental extensions in the installer to
> prevent this, some of these extensions don't even have a release listed on
> http://pecl.php.net
While we're on the topic of bundled windows extensions, is there
a reason for not shipping a FreeTDS version of the MS SQL extension
(aka "php_dblib.dll")? In my experience, the FreeTDS version works much
better than the default php_mssql.dll one, especially for things like
unicode/UTF-8 support and the NVARCHAR data type.
(Especially if http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=41539 could be fixed
:) )