Re: CGI and CLI
| From: | Sterling Hughes | Date: | Wed, 18 Dec 2002 20:30:05 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: CGI and CLI | ||
| References: | 1 2 | Groups: | php.dev |
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> This note from Derick pretty much reflects the idea... it makes sense:
> <quote>
> 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).
> </quote>
>
Hrmm, how does renaming php-cli break compatibility between PHP _releases_?
-Sterling
>
> On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 14:59, Andrei Zmievski wrote:
> > What was the consensus on CGI vs. CLI naming or merging issue? Or was
> > there a consensus at all? I full plan to go ahead with 4.3.0 release
> > before the end of the year, so those interested in doing anything about
> > this issue better get their butts in gear.
> >
> > -Andrei
> > http://www.gravitonic.com/
> >
> > "This isn't right. This isn't even wrong."
> > -- Wolfgang Pauli
> --
> Xavier Spriet <xavier@wuug.org>
>
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