On Mon, 27 May 2002, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: > >- Having two different sets of arguments for httpd and apachectl is > >confusing and difficult to document > > How so? How is this different from syntax differences between any > other two commands? Here is a wrapper used by administrators for > five years, and you want to change the syntax "just because"?
Because any time someone tells you to use command line option "-xxx" (to activate apache's porno mode, perhaps), you need to figure out where the heck it goes and how to get it there. I'm not saying it's the end of the world, I'm saying it's added complexity that we should remove if we can. The fact that apachectl's arguments are standard for init scripts was something I had forgotten about. > I have an entirely different approach we might want to consider. Rather > than implement -k, deprecate the -k flag in Win32. Apache takes no > arguments today, only options. Introducing a single argument doesn't > seem like a bad compromise. That was my favorite option from the beginning. But I'm not sure how easy it would be to implement with the currect getargs code. Joshua.
