> Andrei Zmievski wrote:
> > On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Andi Gutmans wrote:
> >
> >>I doubt this will happen fast enough. We should just release the way we
> >>released 4.2.x, which as far as I know was php for CGI and php-cli for
CLI
> >>or am I a bit behind things? :)
> >
> >
> > Derick and I hashed it out on IRC and we have a proposal:
> >
> > We should keep 4.2.x behavior with some modifications. CLI and CGI
> > should always be built unless disabled, and the executables should go
> > into sapi/cli/php and sapi/cgi/php, respectively. In addition, 'install'
> > target should be modified to detect whether the user is trying to
> > install either one of these SAPIs, output a warning message regarding
> > the potential naming problem, and stop. Let the user install CLI and CGI
> > manually, basically.
> >
> > I really hope we can come to an agreement on this.
>
> I can agree to, and live with, this to some extent.  The changes I would
> want on this would be...
>
> * On win32, cli remains php-cli.exe.  Windows users can rename the
> executable if they feel it's necessary.

I think that this is acceptable to everyone since in this way week keep
status quo to 4.2.x releases.

> * On other platforms, the cgi *is* installed by 'make install' by
> default.  To install cli something like, 'make install-cli', or
> 'configure --install-cli=[DIR] --install-cgi=[DIR]' can be used (the
> second option would be more usefull for installing both, using both
> without [DIR] on one results in a configure error).  A note regarding
> what was installed and where should be added to the output resulting
> from an install.

I really don't understand why insist on cgi being installed on "make
install" to ${PREFIX}/bin? The solution outlined by Andrei and Derick is
much better IMHO because it will alert users of the issue and because
installing a cgi into a webserver requires manual action anyway.

> * Binaries are combined into a single binary in a later release.  I'd be
> happy to do this in January.

-1 for reasons i stated in my reply to Andrei.

> * Documentation is added in regards to this issue.
>
> Shane

Edin


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