joomla/joomla-platform — pull request #1110 by realityking (2012-04-03 21:45:48+00:00)
Title: The dl() function has been removed from most PHP SAPI's in 5.3.

The @'s masked the error but apparently it's a problem on some hosts.

http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/joomla/tracker/?action=TrackerItemEdit&tracker_item_id=28333