On Tuesday 24 June 2003 7:42 pm, Marco Tabini wrote: > > - How many "kernel people" do we know anyway? The majority of PHP users > are not kernel people (or whatever the equivalent for PHP is). I, for > one, recompile my kernel rather frequently and enjoy using the > menu-based tools; and I know lots of people who, like me, do. If that > makes us inexperienced users, then so be it, but what I wonder is which > group represents the majority.
I think the majority of "kernel people" spend too much time with C to worry about compiling php and using it day-to-day. As for recompiling, I prefer menuconfig generally - just makes my life easier; and to be honest, I think that'd go for most people who compile stuff reguarly (4-5 times a month, I'm using for reguarly) rather than on a daily basis. Daily basis, obviously, it becomes easier to do it by hand. Going back to what you said earlier about useability and how that's what drove php forward, Rasmus - doesn't that transpose itself into the compilation stage as well? Wouldn't it be easier for people to get used to compilation through something simple rather than something which, to be frank, the --with-foo and --with-bar lines seem to stretch into eternity on particular configs. I'm not saying the existing way is bad, or hard - I like it - I'm just wondering if the complexity of the configuration might put some people off who arn't used to long configures. If I'm talking arse, please, ignore me. > - I wonder how many people have actually started using PHP since that > configuration tool was available. Perhaps the average makeup of the PHP > user today is different enough that such a system might turn out to be > popular. Just out of interest, how long ago was this ? I certinally don't remember anything (documentation wise at least) at the end of php3, early php4 which was when I started. > Regardless, these are not to orthogonal concepts. The configuration tool > can well be external to PHP proper--that way, it would be possible to > evaluate its effectiveness. There are probably more pressing issues > right now, and I'm certainly not the best judge of what they are. Aye. -- Gareth Ardron -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
