At 11:42 11/03/2002 +0200, Marko Karppinen wrote: >Shane wrote: > > > I think dl is an extremely important feature, and issues surrounding it > > should be fixed. > >I'm absolutely, positively +1 on this. > >On the Mac OS X side of things, we are in the interesting situation of >having PHP bundled with the operating system. I guess the same can be said >about various Linux distributions, but there is a crucial difference: >On the Mac, there is a tremendous pressure to leave the Apple-supplied >software alone -- this will guarantee that it will remain upgradeable with >Apple's Software Update mechanism, for example. > >Now Apple obviously can't bundle each and every PHP extension on the >operating system CD-ROMs and preconfigured Macs. Currently, this is a >lose-lose situation: The Apple-supplied PHP version doesn't have the >features you need, and if you replace it with a homegrown PHP, you lose >Apple's automatic updates and support. > >Having a good, working dl mechanism is the only reasonable way out of this >Catch-22.
Apple should be using php.ini for extensions and not require the user to call dl() wich is sucky. I still am not quite sure why it's such a big deal to add shared extensions to php.ini. I don't agree that PHP extensions necessarily require dl(). There are many programs out there in the computer industry (such as Apache) which require you to add extensions in an INI file. Andi -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
