On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, Ilia A. wrote:
>Since I've gotten involved in this conversation would like to add my opinion
>to the tally. I too believe that at least at this point, the mbstring
>extension should not be enabled by default.
>There are two reasons for this decision:
>
>1) Majority of PHP users do not require this functionality. Most PHP programs
>are developed with non-multibyte languages in mind and mbstring only adds
>unnecessary overhead. People who need it can easily enable it or ask their
>ISPs to enable it, if they had done so already.
>
>2) mbstring extension is a fairly complex piece of code and iirc is the
>youngest extension of this magnitude that is enabled by default. Although the
>extension developers are very prompt at fixing bugs, the fact they need to do
>this fairly frequently, at least to me, implies that the extension is not yet
>mature enough to be enabled by default. Also, judging by the number of
>changes in the CVS to the extension, a lot of new functionality was added to
>the extension recently and has not been tested outside the pre process. Maybe
>by next PHP release is made, it will be better tested and more stable.
I must (still) agree. +1 for making it disabled for now..
(people who need it, already know to use --enable-mbstring with 4.2.3)
--Jani
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