RE: [PHP-DEV] php.exe - php-cgi.exe

Marcus Börger wrote: > At 22:08 08.12.2002, Mike Robinson wrote: > >Christoph Grottolo wrote: > > > > > It's worse. > > > > > > At least PHP 4.2.2 and 4.2.3. have php-cli.exe (CLI) and php.exe > > > (CGI). > > > >This is the way it should stay. > >I'm trying to find the archive of the discussion that lead to this > >being changed. I'm having a huge problem getting my head > around why the > >name of the CGI executable has to be changed at all. Any pointers or > >enlightenment would be welcomed. :) > > > >Regards > >Mike Robinson > > > Just because you only need to type the name of the CGI sapi > once: In other word one single time until we decide the name > changes. But you will use a command line interface hopefully > very often. I for one do and i am not going to type > php-cli.exe because it is way much to long. Every system on the planet that uses php.exe as their CGI executable, and I suggest there are quite a few, will have a broken setup with a stock install of php-4.3.0, because typing php-cli.exe at the command line is too long. And you expect putting huge notes and warnings in the news file and installer will prevent this from happening. > The reason against renaming CGI and using its old name for > the CLI now would have lead us to register_globals=ON for eternity. Totally different. Apples and oranges. That was a security-related change, and IMHO, the amount of trouble _that_ change caused far outweighed the meagre benefits achieved. This change is going to break a lot of setups for the sake of cli users saving a few keystrokes. Sorry. There's just no way this should happen. Regards Mike Robinson