Re: [RFC] Allow loading extensions by name

On 11/05/16 05:59, Joe Watkins wrote: > The idea that we could one day have a configuration file for both > platforms seems like a pipe dream, so this can't really be considered a > "step closer" to that; It's never going to happen. That is my thought as well. Getting windows installations of PHP working with the third party clients needed to complete the jigsaw is irritating at least at the moment. It's bad enough trying to tell nieve users how to check just which client library their system is using when windows already hides the extensions from them, and further hiding just which extension PHP is using ... or guessing if the file has php_ in front. Is not helping windows users. Very few Linux based installs use the php.ini file as shipped, so there is little point making changes to that just for the windows installs anyway? I would like to see the name problem solved, but php_ was added for some very good reason at that time, and then ignored by third party extensions, which is now probably irrelevant, but I would suggest that THAT should perhaps be the target in PHP8 along with a standardising of named ini files containing the associated entries rather than yet another 'sticking plaster' on something which is not going to help lon term. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk