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Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 00:55:17 +0200
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To: Martin Scotta <martinscotta@gmail.com>
Cc: Pierre Joye <pierre.php@gmail.com>, "Matthew Weier O'Phinney" <weierophinney@php.net>, internals@lists.php.net
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Bundling "modern" extensions
From: info@tyrael.hu (Ferenc Kovacs)

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On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 11:40 PM, Martin Scotta <martinscotta@gmail.com>wrote:

>  Martin Scotta
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 2:01 PM, Pierre Joye <pierre.php@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 6:53 PM, Matthew Weier O'Phinney
> > <weierophinney@php.net> wrote:
> >
> > > My point is that perhaps PHP has missed the boat a bit by moving
> > > everything into extensions. Perhaps if an extension is particularly
> > > popular, it should be incorporated into core. But let USAGE drive that,
> > > not the opinions of individuals on @internals.
> >
> >
> > I cannot disagree than with this statement. PHP is one of the language
> > with the most connectivity solutions, fast adoption of new
> > technologies, etc. Why? Because the language itself is relatively
> > stable while its extensions are created every day for every possible
> > use.
> >
> > However it seems that you forgot to consider what I said here a couple
> > of times already. Having one nosql extension in core won't make
> > hosters make the respective server side infrastructure available. How
> > many hosters provide firebird? DB2? Only sqlserver is part of the
> > standard windows offers but that's due to some different factors.
> >
> > That's why we should differentiate general purposes extensions like
> > pecl's http and driver like mongo.
> >
> > so why mysql ext is int core? it's as specific as mongo, isn't?
>
> It'd be very nice if some extension could be enabled just by dropping the
> "extension file" on the path.
> So developers can check what they have using phpinfo, and then upload the
> needed extension using ftp. Is it possible?
>
>
that would be very bad from the security pov.
including an extension should be always explicit.

Tyrael

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