Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:2491 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 18193 invoked from network); 21 Jun 2003 17:10:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO jdi.jdimedia.nl) (212.204.192.51) by pb1.pair.com with SMTP; 21 Jun 2003 17:10:34 -0000 Received: from jdi.jdimedia.nl (jdi.jdimedia.nl [212.204.192.51]) by jdi.jdimedia.nl (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id h5LHAVUl011422; Sat, 21 Jun 2003 19:10:32 +0200 Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 19:10:31 +0200 (CEST) X-X-Sender: derick@jdi.jdimedia.nl To: "Ilia A." cc: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Marcus_B=F6rger?= , Sterling Hughes , PHP Developers Mailing List In-Reply-To: <200306211307.10253.ilia@prohost.org> Message-ID: References: <1056210210.26964.4.camel@hasele> <1927356895.20030621175509@post.rwth-aachen.de> <200306211307.10253.ilia@prohost.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] removing bundled libmysql From: derick@php.net (Derick Rethans) On Sat, 21 Jun 2003, Ilia A. wrote: > On June 21, 2003 11:55 am, Marcus B=F6rger wrote: > > Please disable ext/mysql by default then, too. >=20 > Please don't, if the configure script can find the mysql library needed b= y the=20 > extension on the system I see no reason why not to enable to mysql extens= ion=20 > by default. Given the large number of php + mysql users, it'll surely red= uce=20 > the amount of frustration users will experience once they realize their P= HP=20 > no longer has a default MySQL extension. Our policy is not to enable any extension by default that relies on an=20 external library. If the MySQL guys think that they should make it much=20 harder to use because of their license change that should not mean that=20 we need to change our policies because of them. Derick --=20 "Interpreting what the GPL actually means is a job best left to those that read the future by examining animal entrails." ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Derick Rethans http://derickrethans.nl/=20 International PHP Magazine http://php-mag.net/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------