Re: Disable interactive mode (-a) if readline not available

From: Date: Wed, 12 May 2021 16:13:10 +0000
Subject: Re: Disable interactive mode (-a) if readline not available
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On Wed, 12 May 2021, 09:13 Nikita Popov, <nikita.ppv@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> I think we would be better off disabling -a completely if readline is not
> available, and exit with a helpful error message. I've opened
> https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/6976
> to that effect. Does that sound
> reasonable?
>
> Regards,
> Nikita
>

+1 for this, the shell is very useful but "interactive mode", the evidence
is clear has a tendency to confuse people.
To invert the question, would anyone have a good justification to NOT
remove interactive mode?

>

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