On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 04:23:11PM +0100, Daniel Lorch wrote :
> when I look at /ext/ (PHP source) just to pick a random example:
> what's 'vpopmail' doing there (no personal offense to the author,
> really randomly picked)? I mean, vpopmail has it's own deamon and an
> interface written in PHP (ok, that one is ugly, it depends on global
> variables and has to be rewritten), but why create a /compiled/ module
> for this? doesn't make sense to me. no gain in performance. and even
> the module is WORSE than the PHP interface, because it requires you to
> run PHP as CGI binary, fiddling around with sudo etc.. (whereas the
> PHP just opens a socket to the vpopmail-daemon, sends some commands
> etc..)
Well, no one said the current situaton is the de-facto
standard. There are LOTS of modules in ext/ which do not
belong in here (I won't name any, I want to live longer ;-)
but such it certainly would irritiate (sp?) users missing
some of the modules currently and it's always a problem
restructuring existing infrastructure.
As you have seen, new modules (if its not REALLY important
and you can't life without it) aren't going to php4/ext but
to pear/ (wherever it fits).
> anyone interested in /ext/daniel/ printing out some greetings to my
> friends? how about daniel_greet_his_friends(); and
> daniel_send_email_to_his_friends(), etc?
Well, try to get karma and see what happens 8-)
- Markus
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