I agree with adding XDebug to core distribution but it must be disabled by default.
On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 8:28 AM, Julien Pauli <jpa...@php.net> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 12:49 PM, Kalle Sommer Nielsen <ka...@php.net> > wrote: > > > Hi > > > > 2013/3/1 Julien Pauli <jpa...@php.net>: > > > I guess the ini declaration order and then the order the modules get > > loaded > > > in the engine. > > > > We could also look at implementing a module-load-order internally in > > the zend_module struct, as in some extensions like EXIF relies on > > mbstring, while the ZEND_MODULE_DEP()s works fine for checking for > > mbstring, it does not work if mbstring is loaded after. So what I'm > > saying is that mbstring have a higher load order, meaning even though > > we have this in php.ini[1], PHP will load mbstring first because it > > has the lowest value (requiring it to start first), or giving exif a > > higher than 'normal' value (causing it to load after, as it is after > > all, exif that depends on mbstring, not the other way around). > > > > The same thing can be done with engine level extensions > > (zend_extension), where it probably would make more sense than for 90% > > of all 'php' extensions. > > > > [1]: > > extension=php_exif.dll > > extension=php_mbstring.dll > > > > +1 , Some time ago when I first designed my first extensions studying the > Zend extension loading mechanism I thought about such a system and was > surprised not to find one into the engine. > It shouldn't be too hard to develop, except if you start thinking about > versions dependencies of the modules as well. > > In the same pipe, I was thinking at some dlunload() function which would > enable unoloading modules at runtime, but that's another task, not very > trivial though. > > Julien > > > > > > > > > -- > > regards, > > > > Kalle Sommer Nielsen > > ka...@php.net > > >