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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [Request for Comment] Loading dynamic libraries with
 cross dependencies.
From: pollita@php.net (Sara Golemon)

>> Would I be correct in assuming there's a desire to resolve this issue?
>> Or are we considering "know your dependencies and configure for them"
>> to be enough?
>>
>
> Configuration should be dead simple, having this load order requirements
> is not dead simple. It is actually very complicated because it is
> sometimes not trivial to find out what extension need to be loaded in
> which order. Especially (never encountered it with PHP extensions but
> other stuff) if you have many dependencies that need to be loaded in the
> right order.
>
> Definitely should be addressed!
>
I certainly agree, but I didn't want to jump in too deep given that
this seems to be a relatively rare occurrence and sometimes a little
extra documentation can be a lot more valuable than code.

-Sara