RE: [PHP-DEV] CGI and CLI

Again: Thousands if not millions of servers use PHP as CGI. Who uses PHP for CLI-apps? 100? 1000? 5000? If you use experimental technology you always MUST have in mind that anything can change anytime. Why was'nt PHP available for Apache 2 for a long time (is it in the meantime btw.?)?. Because Apache Group continiously changed their API. > -----Original Message----- > From: Xavier Spriet [mailto:xavier@wuug.org] > Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 9:53 PM > To: Sebastian Nohn > Cc: Sterling Hughes; Andrei Zmievski; PHP Developers > Subject: RE: [PHP-DEV] CGI and CLI > > > Experimental or not, people use it and have developed a need for it. > Many apps out there are based on experimental technology, that's not a > reason to break them all... > > On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 15:48, Sebastian Nohn wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Sterling Hughes [mailto:sterling@bumblebury.com] > > > Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 9:30 PM > > > To: Xavier Spriet > > > Cc: Andrei Zmievski; PHP Developers > > > Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] CGI and CLI > > > > > > > > > > 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_? > > > > In no way! PHP-CLI always was marked as experimental. > > > > MfG, Sebastian > -- > Xavier Spriet <xavier@wuug.org> > >