Re: php.exe - php-cgi.exe

At 19:46 09/12/2002, Andrei Zmievski wrote:

On Mon, 09 Dec 2002, Andi Gutmans wrote: <ducking> Maybe phpsh would be a good idea for the name of the CLI? It wouldn't confuse ppl as much as php-cli </ducking> I'm really not that sure it makes sense to rename the CGI from php to php-cgi after such a long time. It's not as if we're breaking BC for the sake of adding very much needed functionality. Anyway, I'm -0 for the change and +0 to find a more suitable name for the CLI :) I am actually in favor of CLI executable being 'php'. If it's a problem on Windows, then we could possibly compromise and have the CGI version being called php.exe, but I think that it's important we keep it 'php' on UNIX.

Why? PHP as a shell is going to be used by only a fragment of the amount of users who use it as a CGI. In most senses, it's much more PHP than the CLI is. Even though the old version was being used as a shell, it was still quite clear that it is the CGI version. And it is quite clear that the CLI version is the one that's new... Zeev