The reasons are:
   o  MONGOOSE_CGI is easier to understand then comma-separated list
   o  easier to implement
   o  does the job

Also, it is not particularly often utilized feature that is worth extra
complexity.



On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 3:51 PM, Harald Lapp <[email protected]> wrote:

> hi sergey,
>
> thanks very much. ok, i think i can do my stuff with MONGOOSE_CGI, but
> would still like to ask, why you removed "-cgi_environment". it was very
> convenient when setting multiple environment variables, which isn't
> possible with MONGOOSE_CGI(?, at least not without parsing on my own).
>
> thanks!
>
> harald
>
> Am Freitag, 3. Januar 2014 21:28:59 UTC+1 schrieb Sergey Lyubka:
>>
>> Hi Harald,
>> 5.0 is not ready for release yet, there are few things that should be
>> polished.
>> Note that -cgi_environment is gone. Instead, mongoose passes environment
>> variable called MONGOOSE_CGI to the CGI script. So if you want to pass
>> something to the CGI through the environment, just define MONGOOSE_CGI
>> variable before starting mongoose, e.g. in bash shell:
>>
>> MONGOOSE_CGI=thing1,thing2 mongoose -document_root /tmp &
>>
>> I've build dev version for Cocoa, https://code.google.
>> com/p/mongoose/downloads/detail?name=Mongoose-03.01.
>> 2014.dmg&can=2&q=#makechanges
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 7:06 PM, Harald Lapp <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> hi,
>>>
>>> i wonder if the binaries available at your site at
>>> http://cesanta.com/#downloads will be updated to 5.0 anytime soon. the
>>> reason i ask is, that 4.1 doesn't seem to handle CTRL-C (on OSX), on the
>>> other hand the sources available at github seem to lack some features like
>>> "-cgi_environment", which is required by me ...
>>>
>>> thanks!
>>>
>>> harald
>>>
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