Why not make -z an alias for -d zend_extension? - Davey
> On Feb 15, 2025, at 15:23, Niels Dossche <dossche.ni...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 2/10/25 11:14 PM, Larry Garfield wrote: >>> On Mon, Feb 10, 2025, at 3:24 PM, Niels Dossche wrote: >>> Hi internals >>> >>> We received a bug report (https://github.com/php/php-src/issues/17740) >>> that the `-z` command line option for CLI/CGI doesn't actually work. >>> This option is supposed to load a zend extension using a command line >>> argument. >>> However, it turns out that the extension doesn't actually load: PHP >>> will claim that the extension's loaded (in some places), but in reality >>> it never loaded properly. >>> I did an analysis of why this is happening in that GitHub thread, and a >>> clean solution isn't straight-forward. >>> Christoph figured out that this option has been broken since at least >>> PHP 5.5, a long time. >>> As passing `-d zend_extension=foo` on the command line is already a >>> suitable replacement, we'd like to just remove the `-z` option in PHP >>> 8.5 instead of fixing it. >>> >>> Are there any objections against this? Please let us know. >>> >>> Kind regards >>> Niels >> >> Seems reasonable to me. Perhaps update the -d help text accordingly, if >> needed? >> >> --Larry Garfield > > Hi > > Just to clarify: the -d option just sets an ini option. > One idea could be to make -z print out a message telling the user to use "-d > zend_extension=...". That would make the transition more "gradual". > OTOH this didn't work for ages so nobody realistically relies on this option. > > Kind regards > Niels
