On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 12:31 AM, Kalle Sommer Nielsen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Laruence
>
> 2013/3/31 Laruence <[email protected]>
>> I propose to add a constant : bool CURL_WRAPPERS_ENABLE
>>
>> or, any other better name...
>>
>> objections?
>
> I'm a -1 on this, because as we sort of agreed on (like Hannes
> implied), this experimental feature did not turn out as we wanted, its
> buggy and nobody maintains it. Currently to figure out if PHP was
> built with curlwrappers, theres this dirty hack by printing the
> phpinfo() page into an output buffer, to parse it for the build
> string, this sucks.
>
> However, since this is an experimental feature, we should either:
> 1) Make it work (most unlikely)
> 2) Remove it
>
> Instead of adding tiny hacks to make it easier (I know a constant wont
> hurt much). Cross version code is also gonna end up with even more
> clutter, imagine this (if you want to utilize this new constant, which
> is the idea right?):
>
> $curlwrappers = false;
>
> if(defined('CURL_WRAPPERS_ENABLED')) {
> $curlwrappers = true;
You'll actually have to assign the value of CURL_WRAPPERS_ENABLED to
$curlwrappers, as defined() only checks if the constant exist.. not if
its set to true :)
-Hannes