Since when have we started to use users as guinea-pigs
for testing EXPERIMENTAL extensions without them even
really knowing about it?!!
You can't FORCE anybody to use it. 99% of apps out there
DO NO NEED IT..get it?? (they've managed without it very long time..)
--Jani
On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Marcus Börger wrote:
>At 23:56 12.11.2002, 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.
>
>NO. Most people do not have the choice and ISPs usually take the default.
>If the default is not approriate they do not use it.
>If you read the whole thread you find enough reasons how apps benefit from
>mbstring and what could be easily achieved with languages like german.
>
>
>>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.
>>
>>Ilia
>
>Ok there are some problems and that is the backside of it: Some of us
>implement new functionality and some merge code from the original development
>tree. In other words: Maybe we should slow down or even stop feature
>development
>until 4.3 is out.... After php 4.3 we hope the new implementation can be used.
>
>As long as function overloading isn't used there is no harm from mbstring
>(disable
>is the default). And some extra bytes shouldn't affect anybody today. If
>you say
>most apps are not designed to use mbstring then it's nice that all those
>could try
>mbstring which would like to. So we can get feedback. As long as it isn't
>default
>there will be none or only little feedback.
>
>The stability is very high and we have many *.phpt tests to help us find
>failures
>and make it even more stable.
>
>marcus
>
>
>
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