Re: RE: [PEAR-DEV] Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [PEAR-DEV] --with-pear[=DIR] patch

> > i'd also preffer to have both versions - on all of my production servers i > > do install both apache module and cgi version. the latter i use for cron > > jobs, background processing and whatsoever tasks that need to do something > > outside the web. so in my opinion both sapi module and cgi will be a fine > > default. one more 'little' binary in /usr/local/bin would harm noone. also > > some isp configurations with several sapi setups on the same machine would > > benefit easier maintenance with this option. of course a way to disable it > > is ok but since PEAR needs the cgi ver to be able to fetch modules and etc > > the default should be 'enabled'. > Also it make sense to separate all but SAPI modules into shared library > to which SAPI module is linked dynamically. Then SAPI module binaries will > all share one code. indeed this is only one more step in the build process - make the core php lib then link to all the sapi modules on the configure command line and install them one by one. you did not mean dll/so right? because the base library must be a static one and then the sapi modules themselves may be either dynamic or static... b.