Perhaps you're not seeing my point, or perhaps you don't care about users? I speak as a developer, not as some guy with a crap webhost, and
So according to you every single extension should be put bundled and installed by default?
If not, then someone has to draw the line and decide which ones are treated as "first class" and that's exactly what people (e.g. Derick) are doing here: They decided against bundling libmcrypt.
I'm sure if there's a major uproar about an extension being mandatory for the next killer application then they'll reconsider. But for now it seems that encryption functionality a la mcrypt hasn't been in high enough demand.
- Chris
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