Some hosting providers do not offer some of these extensions by default, and installing them would require me to install a custom version of php.
My hosting provider allows this, but requires a lot of work. Other than the manual upgrade, are there any plans to enhance the upgrades? Perhaps through subversion checkout?
Also, without the .zip extension, that is going to make it tough to upload multiple files. Is there any way that I could upload files into a directory onto my host, then tell opengoo where the files are, then it copies or moves the files into where they should be for them to work in the program?