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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In reply to Re^8: Preaching Perl gospel to PHP converts... by diotalevi
in thread Preaching Perl gospel to PHP converts... by vladb

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