On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Matthew Charles Kavanagh wrote: > Perhaps you're not seeing my point, or perhaps you don't care about > users? I speak as a developer, not as some guy with a crap webhost, and > my concern is that I would like to write applications that many people > can run, not just those who take out a loan against their house to pay > for webhosting. Many other developers will feel the same way as me.
There are also developers who want to use Oracle, should we bundle Oracle client libraries? There are also developers who want to use X, should we bundle X' client libraries? Often it's not even possible to bundle libraries (libmcrypt is one, as it's LGPL - we do *NOT* want to get into GPL/LGPL mess again), in other cases it's only very rarely used. As a developer you have options: a) make sure things that rely on things that are not enabled by default are optional components of your application b) make sure to re-implement things that are not available in PHP c) tell your users to get a decent webhost - all decent ones will gladly add a new extension Make your choice. Derick -- Derick Rethans http://derickrethans.nl | http://ez.no | http://xdebug.org -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
