Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:30401 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 49488 invoked by uid 1010); 2 Jul 2007 08:18:39 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 49463 invoked from network); 2 Jul 2007 08:18:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 2 Jul 2007 08:18:39 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=antony@zend.com; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=antony@zend.com; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain zend.com designates 212.25.124.162 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: antony@zend.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 212.25.124.162 mail.zend.com Linux 2.5 (sometimes 2.4) (4) Received: from [212.25.124.162] ([212.25.124.162:4610] helo=mail.zend.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 5C/51-35467-BD4B8864 for ; Mon, 02 Jul 2007 04:18:38 -0400 Received: (qmail 11414 invoked from network); 2 Jul 2007 08:18:30 -0000 Received: from internal.zend.office (HELO ?127.0.0.1?) (10.1.1.1) by internal.zend.office with SMTP; 2 Jul 2007 08:18:30 -0000 Message-ID: <4688B4D5.707@zend.com> Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2007 12:18:29 +0400 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070326) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Scott MacVicar CC: PHP Internals References: <46882329.9000605@php.net> In-Reply-To: <46882329.9000605@php.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Too many extensions bundled with the Windows Installer? From: antony@zend.com (Antony Dovgal) On 02.07.2007 01:56, 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. > > 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. Yes, I don't see any reasons to ship extensions that were never released (and just happen to build successfully). Those people who want crashes^H^H^H^H^H^H^H to play with them can easily find the DLLs on pecl4win.php.net. In fact, I think the installer package should not include extensions which are not included in the core. Windows people are no better/worse than the others and are able to download a PECL package. > 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 -- Wbr, Antony Dovgal