Re: Another PECL candidate and more extension considerations.

From: Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2008 18:58:56 +0000
Subject: Re: Another PECL candidate and more extension considerations.
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Derick Rethans kirjoitti:
On Fri, 1 Aug 2008, Marcus Boerger wrote:
2) We might not really be ready for one and continue doing as we've always done. Select a nice collection of extension that aims to make the majority of our userbase happy. And suggest defaults this way whether or not they are enabled by default. The default enabled exts are just a stronger suggesttion that we think people should be able to rely on.
Yes, having a good feature rich PHP core is important. If an extension is not enabled by default, implementers of public-ready applications can't rely on it. Saying that it is "bloat" if more things are enabled by default isn't really an argument - because the people for whom that really matters, can very easily use --disable-all.
..which actually doesn't disable that much since some people thought making certain extensions enabled without possibility to disable them was good idea .. --Jani

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