See my letter to Andrei.
I've yet to see an ISP that (knowingly) allows users to load extensions,
and wouldn't agree to add them to the php.ini file.
This isn't a case of me saying "users don't need X" or "95.6% of the
scripts out there don't need Y". This is me saying that dl() is *bad*,
even if people got used to using it, which is why it should be
deprecated. Again, notice that it has been deprecated for a long while in
thread-safe mode, which means people who develop under Windows (a huge
share) don't have it for over a year.
dl() is bad in pretty much every sense, including the new sense you
mentioned in your letter - dl()'ing extensions in a shared
environment. Forcing the ISP to admit any extensions into the php.ini file
before it gets loaded to the server is a good thing.
If dl() is one of PEAR's foundations, it's time to dig it up and replace it
with something more sound and stable :) Using php.ini for loading
extensions should be the way to go.
Zeev
At 18:18 06/08/2001, Stig Sæther Bakken wrote:
>[Zeev Suraski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]
> >
> > Please don't just say it's useful, please say why :)
> > dl() has absolutely nothing over loading in php.ini, and has many
> drawbacks.
>
>Please allow me to coin a new term: "Zeev-ism". Zeev-isms are of the
>form "users don't need X" or "95.6% of the scripts out there don't
>need Y". ;-)
>
>The fact is that a lot of people (typically ISP users) don't have
>access to php.ini or .htaccess. If these people need a third party
>extension, or one that was not built in their ISP's version of PHP,
>they either have to get their ISP to include it (and if the ISP is big
>enough and the client small enough, they won't care), or use dl(). If
>their ISP hasn't disabled that function, in which case they're screwed
>anyway of course.
>
>I do get kinda worried when you pop out a statement like "we're
>probably going to deprecate dl() anyway", being able to load
>extensions at run-time sort of is one of PEAR's foundations.
>
>Let's try to fix these problems rather than cripping PHP.
>
> - Stig
>
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> Stig Sæther Bakken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Fast Search & Transfer ASA, Trondheim, Norway
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CTO & co-founder, Zend Technologies Ltd. http://www.zend.com/
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