Hi folks
I asked my ISP to flesh out their negative comments about adding libraries
to PHP.
This is their reply - is there anything in this, or are they
misunderstanding the situation?
>>>>>>>>>
We run servers. We want to compile stuff from source, for obvious reasons!
As such, the question is simple and obvious: why does so much in PHP rely
on the core's compile-time. Why can't there be run-time or DSO inclusion
later on, as with Perl. Basically, PHP has really screwed up in this
monolythic design which was all very well when it was a simple templating
system, but now it's grown to a full-grown language, the scalability,
flexibility and namespace issues are becoming untennable. I note that
something called "Pear" appears in later compilations of the PHP core. I
assume this is some attempt at including Perl's library system and,
eventually, a CPAN-a-like?
>>>>>>>>>>>
I'm not so sure why they prefer to compile from source - why wouldn't they
trust a professional distro?
Geoff Caplan
--
PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/)
To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
