On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Marcus Börger wrote: > At 02:54 29.08.2002, Jani Taskinen wrote: > >On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, Marcus Börger wrote: > > > > >>Having exif not enabled by default doesn't harm development at all. If > > >>people want exif, they can enable it just fine. Adding more 'bloat' > > >>(this has nothing to do with the usefulness) to the default compilation > > >>is not a good thing, for example we could have enabled sockets, sysvshm, > > >>sysvsem... too by default. > > >> > > >>Derick > > > > > >Of cause exif doesn't affect php development in any way! I meant here that > > >PECL development must not hurt php development. > > > > -1 for enabling any extensions by default.. > > Especially this kind of extensions which are not really widely > > used.. > > > > --Jani > > > > Only extensions beein enabled by default will be widely used. > You all here are to determined on what you personally want > and want to everybody do the same. But most people cannot > select any option in their php installation since they depend > on what option their hosters enable or not. AND hosters will > NOT enable anything not beeing default. So i fear if we move > all extensions to PECL php becomes useless. But do what > ever you want.
Hmm, what about GD or IMAP? AFAIK most hosters support those. And who is talking about moving all extensions to PECL? Sure, a lot of them can be moved (once it's ready), but nobody proposed moving everything there. It's really not about being "determined on what you personally want" but it's about common sense. Derick --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Did I help you? http://www.derickrethans.nl/link.php?url=giftlist Frequent ranting: http://www.derickrethans.nl/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- PHP: Scripting the Web - [EMAIL PROTECTED] All your branches are belong to me! SRM: Script Running Machine - www.vl-srm.net --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
