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Subject: Too many extensions bundled with the Windows Installer?
From: scottmac@php.net (Scott MacVicar)

The Windows Installer seems to allow someone to enable just about every 
extension that can be built, roughly about 118. It seems that most 
people assume that they need every feature of PHP to work, especially 
thsoe in Windows.

Out of those 118 extensions there are 3 which cause crashes and blank pages.

SAM extension has some interesting code its its RINIT function to 
require a PHP file, if its not there it exits and you get a blank page 
with display errors off.

The thread pecl extension and iisfunc don't work when and cause crashes 
on module shutdown.

I propose that we disable all experimental extensions in the installer 
to prevent this, some of these extensions don't even have a release 
listed on http://pecl.php.net

Scott