On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 12:53 -0400, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > > But one thing is sure, all distributions do include mongodb, > > memcache(d), couchdb, etc. If you can't run an apt-get install > > memcached (non core), just like you run apt-get install pdo_mysql > > (core), then there is something intrinsically wrong in your system. > > Or it means YOU DO NOT HAVE ROOT. > > Just because the distributions OFFER the extensions does not mean that > users have ACCESS to them. Not everyone has complete control over their > boxes, or sysadmins who are willing to update configurations. If the > functionality were available as part of core, developers would simply > have access, regardless of distribution and permissions.
Which won't change a bit if we bundle it. Distributors already make stuff shared in different packages we enable(!) by default. (sqlite, xml stuff, ...) So the sysadmin already has to choose. And the choice is little affected by what we call "default" but what either the admin's preferences or some requirement document coming from somewhere ... johannes -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
