Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:30399 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 40851 invoked by uid 1010); 2 Jul 2007 07:58:46 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 40836 invoked from network); 2 Jul 2007 07:58:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 2 Jul 2007 07:58:46 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=frode@CoreTrek.no; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=frode@CoreTrek.no; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain CoreTrek.no from 80.239.119.81 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: frode@CoreTrek.no X-Host-Fingerprint: 80.239.119.81 ragnaros.coretrek.no Received: from [80.239.119.81] ([80.239.119.81:55917] helo=ragnaros.coretrek.no) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 6D/70-35467-330B8864 for ; Mon, 02 Jul 2007 03:58:45 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ragnaros.coretrek.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63A33198429; Mon, 2 Jul 2007 10:01:58 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ragnaros.coretrek.no Received: from ragnaros.coretrek.no ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ragnaros.coretrek.no [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id JhrWk62RAopu; Mon, 2 Jul 2007 10:01:55 +0200 (CEST) Received: from enterprise.intra.coretrek.com (phobos.coretrek.no [80.239.119.10]) by ragnaros.coretrek.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CB1B198471; Mon, 2 Jul 2007 10:01:55 +0200 (CEST) Received: from fearless.intra.coretrek.com (enterprise.intra.coretrek.com [10.0.0.2]) by enterprise.intra.coretrek.com (8.13.1/8.11.0) with ESMTP id l627waoD035112; Mon, 2 Jul 2007 09:58:37 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from frode@CoreTrek.no) Received: by fearless.intra.coretrek.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 04AF99CC02D; Mon, 2 Jul 2007 09:56:46 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 09:56:46 +0200 To: Scott MacVicar Cc: PHP Internals Message-ID: <20070702075646.GA12586@fearless.intra.coretrek.com> References: <46882329.9000605@php.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <46882329.9000605@php.net> X-Operating-System: Debian GNU/Linux Unstable (sid) i386 X-PGP-Key: http://corehacker.com/~frode/gpg/ X-PGP-Key-FingerPrint: DA78 4CFF E1E5 068A 9B33 11F4 5DFE 74D0 3907 BED0 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-11) Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Too many extensions bundled with the Windows Installer? From: frode@CoreTrek.no ("Frode E. Moe") On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 22:56:57 +0100, Scott MacVicar wrote: > 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. > > 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 While we're on the topic of bundled windows extensions, is there a reason for not shipping a FreeTDS version of the MS SQL extension (aka "php_dblib.dll")? In my experience, the FreeTDS version works much better than the default php_mssql.dll one, especially for things like unicode/UTF-8 support and the NVARCHAR data type. (Especially if http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=41539 could be fixed :) )