Re: curious about PEAR C extensions...

["Jeffrey A.Stuart" <jstuart@neo.rr.com>] > Here's a crazy thought then! Why not make most of the current > extensions a part of PEAR? Since they would be dynamically loaded, > then we could mix and match which modules get loaded as we want. This > could come in handy for hosting companies. Yes, I know that I can > choose which modules to be included in PHP at compile time BUT...if I > choose most of them, it'll increase the size of PHP dramatically!!! > Rather, I'd like to have a core set of modules in PHP and then be able > to choose which extra modules I load as I need to. For example, if > one virtual site uses postgress, it doesn't need the mysql extensions > in PHP. So why waste the memory? For PHP 4.1 we are probably going to do something like this (that is, moving extensions out of PHP and into PEAR). - Stig -- Stig Sæther Bakken <ssb@fast.no> Fast Search & Transfer ASA, Trondheim, Norway