Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:30297 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 69760 invoked by uid 1010); 21 Jun 2007 05:52:58 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 69745 invoked from network); 21 Jun 2007 05:52:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 21 Jun 2007 05:52:58 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=wrowe@rowe-clan.net; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=wrowe@rowe-clan.net; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain rowe-clan.net from 64.202.165.95 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: wrowe@rowe-clan.net X-Host-Fingerprint: 64.202.165.95 smtpauth04.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net Linux 2.4/2.6 Received: from [64.202.165.95] ([64.202.165.95:51348] helo=smtpauth04.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 88/24-32874-7321A764 for ; Thu, 21 Jun 2007 01:52:57 -0400 Received: (qmail 2595 invoked from network); 21 Jun 2007 05:52:52 -0000 Received: from unknown (24.15.193.17) by smtpauth04.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net (64.202.165.95) with ESMTP; 21 Jun 2007 05:52:52 -0000 Message-ID: <467A122E.8040106@rowe-clan.net> Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 01:52:46 -0400 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (X11/20070530) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andi Gutmans CC: internals@lists.php.net References: <698DE66518E7CA45812BD18E807866CE49E7BF@us-ex1.zend.net> In-Reply-To: <698DE66518E7CA45812BD18E807866CE49E7BF@us-ex1.zend.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Feature(let) idea From: wrowe@rowe-clan.net ("William A. Rowe, Jr.") Andi Gutmans wrote: > I got a feature idea from Apache. Apache will automatically translate > mod_rewrite.so in LoadModule to mod_rewrite.dll on Windows. It does? Apache/Win32 actually names the '.dll' as mod_rewrite.so on windows. There's nothing special about the '.dll' filename extension, a similar example is the .cpl control panel extensions, which are .dll's that are loaded into the system settings schema, .scr for screensaver dll's following that API, etc. In general, it's a good idea. My builds of php on win32 *are* entirely in the unix-style, for my customers who need to toggle between win32 and unix. It makes the documentation much simpler when you don't need two entirely different sets. Bill