dan nessett wrote:
Is maintaining the status quo really desirable? Look
at the extensions directory. It currently has ~400 extension sub-directories. If you
wanted to reorganize this so there is some sort of logic to it (e.g., first cut - put
command line extensions in one directory and hook based extensions in another) you would
have to change a lot of code so the computation of $IP by some extensions is correct.
How about this. When you run php from the command line, there is a flag -d defined as:
"foo[=bar] Define INI entry foo with value 'bar'". For those extensions
that run from the command line you could require callers to include a value for the php
"include_path". This value would be the value in php.ini appended with the value
of a directory containing the simple MWInit.php file provided in my message of Aug. 11,
9:57AM. Command line extensions could then call MWInit() to get MW root.
I just tried this and it worked. It would fix the problem for at least command line
utilities.
Dan
How's that better than MW_CONFIG_PATH environment variable?