On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Sebastian Nohn wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Sterling Hughes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 9:30 PM > > To: Xavier Spriet > > Cc: Andrei Zmievski; PHP Developers > > Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] CGI and CLI > > > > > > > This note from Derick pretty much reflects the idea... it makes sense: > > > <quote> > > > I see that renaming the CGI to php-cgi might break things indeed, and > > > that's never a good idea. But so is changing the name of the CLI (php) > > > to something else. It also breaks things, not only for me, but also for > > > countless others using the CLI with the name 'php'. We also need to > > > think about these users as well. This leaves my opinion that i'm -1 on > > > renaming the CLI to something else, and i'm a -0 (yes this changed :) on > > > renaming the CGI. This leaves the (IMO) only possible solution: > > > integrate them back into one binary and adding some magic which triggers > > > CLI or CGI mode (perhaps to check for some environment variable). > > > </quote> > > > > > > > Hrmm, how does renaming php-cli break compatibility between PHP > > _releases_? > > In no way! PHP-CLI always was marked as experimental.
And that means you can piss of users as you see fit? Derick -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Derick Rethans http://derickrethans.nl/ PHP Magazine - PHP Magazine for Professionals http://php-mag.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
