Re: php.exe - php-cgi.exe

On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Zeev Suraski wrote: > Somehow it doesn't surprise me that the same people who wanted other > BC-breaking changes (minus perhaps Wez) are in favour of this change as well. > > Just for the record, we never had a real vote on php-dev or any of the > other forums, and I don't think we'll start now. php-dev is an open forum > and we can all find people that will vote our way if we want to. We have > to hash it until we reach something that everyone can live with, or stay > with the way things are right now (as in the way PHP 4.2 is, where they're > both 'php'). I'm having a very hard time living with the PHP-CGI change, > and I find it very difficult to find any drawbacks to keeping the one > integrated binary we used to have since 1998(*). > > Zeev > > (*) For the record, as a core developer who worked a lot on cgi_main.c I > felt the cleanliness issue at least as much as the rest of you, and my gut > feeling was that separation is a good idea too. Given the problems we're > now bumping into, I changed my mind, and think I (and the rest of you) > sinned in thinking about what's cool/neat/Right for us, the few, instead of > what's good for the users. Luckily it's not yet too late to prevent that > from happening. > Just for the record, not that it counts much, but I totally agree with you. Couldn't have said it any better than that. Joao