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?



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