> 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 -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php