At 21:08 11/03/2002 +0200, Marko Karppinen wrote:
> >> Having a good, working dl mechanism is the only reasonable way out of this
> >> Catch-22.
> >
> > Apple should be using php.ini for extensions and not require the user to
> > call dl() wich is sucky.
>
>This is not about what Apple should be doing; indeed, Apple does nothing to
>stop you from using a php.ini file. The question is this: what will the
>*users* of Apple computers be doing?
>
>For them, digging into the guts of the system, installing PHP extensions
>there and modifying obscure, Apple-supplied configuration files is MUCH,
>MUCH more frightening than just downloading a php extension, dropping it
>into the Sites folder in their home directory, and calling
>dl("extension.bundle"); in their PHP scripts.
>
>The fact that we're bundled on OS X has the promise of making PHP available
>to a whole new group of users. Leveraging that will require special
>consideration from us. Mac users don't become UNIX users just by installing
>OS X, and we shouldn't expect them to.I'm surprised that MAC OS X's installation/update program doesn't know how to edit text files :) Andi -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
