> >I could go the long way and repeat the motivatiom behind the creation of CLI > >at this point, but instead I would like to recommend that we take > >evolutionary approach. First make CLI a CGI without all the CGI garbage. > >Always build it with PHP. (this is where we are now). The next step is > >moving PHP in the direction of general purpose scripting language. > > > >Edin > > Ithink we all know this - but what you wrote *is* the reason to remove CLI > from 4.2 - we all seem unhappy with its current behaviour so why not wait > until we have made CLI that general purpose scripting language.
You cannot make that happen overnight. Thus the "evolutionary appoach". Do you know that the changes to the build system so that stand alone php binary was always built was added to PHP4 TODO list on April 28, 2000 (that's before 4.0.0 was released)? Edin -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
