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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] ZTS - why are you using it?
From: streaky@mybrokenlogic.com (Martin Nicholls)

On 29/01/2013 09:03, Zeev Suraski wrote:
> I’m creating a new one,
> based on the apparent level of interest in ZTS.  This isn’t an RFC to
> remove ZTS by any stretch, but I **am** a bit confused about why people are
> still using ZTS.

Personally because runkit sandbox requires it, amongst other extensions.
Haven't had a chance to play with it yet but the new pthreads extension
requires it which I'm probably going to be using extensively in future too.

Why does it need to be enabled for most people? It probably doesn't, but
there are many third part extensions that can't function without it with
no obvious workarounds that would cease to exist if it hypothetically
disappeared. This for me, and I suppose many others would be a fairly
major problem.