On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Tim Parkin wrote:
> 1) Will MySQL be included again - I presume this will probably be so,
> dependant on MySQL AB.
No, we will not re-bundle the client libraries anymore. (Even if they
have a good exception we can not bundle GPL'ed libraries).
> 2) Will any consideration of including a non-commercial db client as
> default will EVER be considered regardless of circumstances.
No, we're not going to bundle new libraries anymore, unless there is a
*very* good reason for it.
> 3) If it would be considered, how much more favourable the circumstances
> would have to be for the inclusion to be seriously considered.
Akin to "the PHP world will end if we do not include it".
>
> 4) Should MySQL not be included again and no discussion of alternate
> DB's being allowed, am I right in presuming PHP would have no bundled DB client.
Yes, you are (except for SQLite though).
> Finally, this would be all made a lot easier if the libraries could be
> included at runtime from a local directory. From what I understand this
> should be possible with PECL. If all (most, some, importartant) modules
> could be included by dropping them into a ftp folder and including them
> in your code, none of these conversations would be relevant. So...
>
> 5) can we, or will we be able, to do this?
I'm not getting you here. Do you want to load any library by just
dropping them in a directory? This only works for extensions with dl(),
or by setting extension= in php.ini. If you want to have a library
linked to this, I think it's possible to do, but it's up to the
extension maintainer to make it one .so then (extension + library).
(all points are my view on them, but I think most people share them)
Derick
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