At 13:19 02/09/2002, James Cox wrote: >As I see it, PHP was designed with speed and simplicity in mind.
It was indeed.. >Having the burden of a large number of extra modules compiled in by >default doesn't help, and deviates from this path. Not really. Speed-wise, adding modules has a negligible effect. As far as simplicity goes, we're talking about simplicity for the developer. Bundling features does make things simpler for the majority of the target audience. > Compiling modules by default which are buggy just compounds the problem. I obviously agree with that. I do want to see mbstring become an integrated part of PHP, but not a moment sooner than when it is stable. Zeev -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php