RE: [PHP-DEV] php-cgi vs php-cli naming issue

> -----Original Message----- > From: Derick Rethans [mailto:derick@php.net] > Sent: Sunday, December 15, 2002 7:21 PM > To: marcus.boerger@post.rwth-aachen.de > Cc: john@coggeshall.org; 'Stig S. Bakken'; 'Sterling Hughes'; 'Andrei > Zmievski'; php-dev@lists.php.net > Subject: RE: [PHP-DEV] php-cgi vs php-cli naming issue > > > On Sun, 15 Dec 2002, Marcus Börger wrote: > > > At 18:33 15.12.2002, John Coggeshall wrote: > > > >I see that renaming the CGI to php-cgi might break things indeed, and > > > >that's never a good idea. But so is changing the name of the > CLI (php) > > > >to something else. It also breaks things, not only for me, but > > > >also for > > > >countless others using the CLI with the name 'php'. We also need to > > > >think about these users as well. This leaves my opinion that > i'm -1 on > > > >renaming the CLI to something else, and i'm a -0 (yes this > > > >changed :) on > > > >renaming the CGI. This leaves the (IMO) only possible solution: > > > >integrate them back into one binary and adding some magic > > > >which triggers > > > >CLI or CGI mode (perhaps to check for some environment variable). > > > > > >I'm a bit nervous about the checking of an environment variable thing. > > >Is that platform/server independent? > > > > No, CGI is a well described standard. The only problem there is when > > someone experiments with the combined executable as a CGI with > > setting such vars and then forgets to remove the vars after testing is > > done. In this case he has changed the behaviour of his CLI executable. > > By environment variables I meant thing that get set for the CGI > itnerface. From http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/cgi/env.html you > can read > that the GATEWAY_INTERFACE is available for all requests, so it's safe > to test if this one exists. > > > So i am against comining them back. Besides that i fear that we would > > have to restart release cycle... > > The release cycle would be a problem indeed... Why do we need new releases every couple of weeks? Don't misunderstand me, I would really like to see 4.3 released, as this is the first version since around one year that will have only a few bugs on Tru64, on the other hand I'm really shocked, how buggy 4.3 will be on windows (http://lists.php.net/article.php?group=php.qa&article=7279). I do not develop on windows, so I have no idea if PHP always was so buggy on windows, but in my eyes 4.3 is far from being ready to be released if you take the windows-versions. Regards, Sebastian Nohn -- sebastian@nohn.net - http://www.nohn.net/ PGP Key Available - Did I help you? Consider a gift: http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/wishlist/3HYH6NR8ZI0WI/