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Subject: Fw: [PHP-DEV] Re: [ZEND-ENGINE-CVS] cvs: ZendEngine2 / zend_API.c
From: wez@thebrainroom.com ("Wez Furlong")

Bah, stupid OE.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Wez Furlong" <wez@thebrainroom.com>
To: "Christian Schneider" <cschneid@cschneid.com>
Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 11:53 AM
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [ZEND-ENGINE-CVS] cvs: ZendEngine2 / zend_API.c


> This is quite difficult to implement correctly, as the extension
> name != module file name, and that filename is platform dependent
> and not consistent between the various extensions (for example,
> the gd extension is named php_gd2.dll under windows).
> 
> It should be sufficient to warn the user to fix their php.ini
> file, at least for the moment; anything more than that is too
> complex to stick into PHP 5 at this stage.
> 
> --Wez.
> 
> > Wez Furlong wrote:
> > > Even better would be to add an array of module names into the module
> > > structure and have the ZE apply this check when it loads the module.
> > > 
> > > I think that it is reasonably important to warn the user that things
> > > will break if we can detect it.
> > 
> > If there was an array of dependencies in the modules then the ZE could 
> > even try to figure out the right order to load the modules. A 
> > warning/error could be given if there are any circular dependencies.
>