Re: Re: cvs: php4 /sapi/cgi cgi_main.c /sapi/cli php_cli.c

On Sat, May 11, 2002 at 06:43:54AM -0400, Dan Kalowsky wrote : > On Sat, 11 May 2002, Markus Fischer wrote: > > > > Someone came up that it may be a use for PECL modules (or any > > C extension) which relies on a certain API number. Maybe Stig > > can see a use for it? Blame Derick who came up with the idea > > (I think ? :-) *hides*. > > I'm still not buying it. If future modules are dependent upon a specific > version of PHP to work, that version will more than likely be the PHP > version. I don't see how the API number is going to effect any > development. So far we have 3 votes for it, 1 against it (not counting mine). Maybe the others can give some useful examples too (as this was not suggested by me but I don't think it harms us and I find the -vv switch quite nice, but we could use -V too). > > Which standard ? :) Anyway, It's quite common to have > > multiple occurences of the same option additionally enhance > > the option, e.g. rpm: > > > > $ rpm --help|grep verbose > > -v - be a little more verbose > > -vv - be incredibly verbose (for debugging) > > A "de facto" standard stating -v is for version information. And please > PLEASE don't use RPM as a model for software development. It is NOT a model for me. It was just the quickest thing I could find. I've seen numerous apps using switches this way in the past years, though I would not sit here if I could remember everything I've seen in my life :) - Markus -- Please always Cc to me when replying to me on the lists. GnuPG Key: http://guru.josefine.at/~mfischer/C2272BD0.asc "I'm not stupid, you know? :)" - Jani Taskinen