Re^8: Preaching Perl gospel to PHP converts...

So then to complete the question - if I wanted to add gd to PHP post-installation then everything is always available through PEAR? If so then that's alright. That means the post-installation reconfigure/recompile dance doesn't have to happen (and I'd exepect that doing so is deprecated) and all is well.

If you told a perl programmer they'd have to recompile perl to add Digest::SHA1 they'd look at you funny. That's a moral equivalent of what I was originally thinking. Or maybe the closer analogue is recompile perl and mod_perl. Anyhow, that'd be daft and you've just said that PHP handles it well so my original question is answered. Thanks.

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Re: Re^8: Preaching Perl gospel to PHP converts... by Anonymous Monk on Feb 06, 2003 at 01:30 UTC
That means the post-installation reconfigure/recompile dance doesn't have to happen (and I'd exepect that doing so is deprecated) I hope not. Since PHP is a Web development language, its native support of databases, for example, is considered a positive feature.	[reply]
Re^10: Preaching Perl gospel to PHP converts... by diotalevi (Canon) on Feb 06, 2003 at 19:19 UTC
I think at this point the PHP advocates are missing the point — that you shouldn't have to go through the whole configure/compile/install dance just to add a library. But whether you, Anonymous Monk recognize that is largely immaterial. I'm sure the core PHP developers have this on their list of "really-annoying" things and it'll get taken care of eventually. Seeking Green geeks in Minnesota	[reply]