On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Matthew Charles Kavanagh wrote: > Derick Rethans wrote: > > This is definitely not planned - we rather not bundle any library, and > > definitely not an LGPL library. > > > > Reinventing the wheel by providing encryption routines in PHP does not > > make sense really. PHP is meant to be a glue to provide access to > > libraries, and not meant to be reimplementing them. > > The issue in my mind is one of portability. It would be nice, as a > developer working in PHP, to be able to rely on functionality like > encryption (and other unrelated goodies) being available on Joe User's > $5/month webhost who don't go around installing fancy packages.
Get a better webhost. If you want to use PHP's more advanced (and less used) extensions you need to pick a better host. And CC the mailinglist! Derick -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
