dan nessett wrote: > Is maintaining the status quo really desirable? Look at the extensions > directory. It currently has ~400 extension sub-directories. If you wanted to > reorganize this so there is some sort of logic to it (e.g., first cut - put > command line extensions in one directory and hook based extensions in > another) you would have to change a lot of code so the computation of $IP by > some extensions is correct. > > How about this. When you run php from the command line, there is a flag -d > defined as: "foo[=bar] Define INI entry foo with value 'bar'". For those > extensions that run from the command line you could require callers to > include a value for the php "include_path". This value would be the value in > php.ini appended with the value of a directory containing the simple > MWInit.php file provided in my message of Aug. 11, 9:57AM. Command line > extensions could then call MWInit() to get MW root. > > I just tried this and it worked. It would fix the problem for at least > command line utilities. > > Dan
How's that better than MW_CONFIG_PATH environment variable? _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
