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Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 23:08:36 -0700
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Thread-Topic: [PHP-DEV] Feature(let) idea
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To: "William A. Rowe, Jr." <wrowe@rowe-clan.net>
Cc: <internals@lists.php.net>
Subject: RE: [PHP-DEV] Feature(let) idea
From: andi@zend.com ("Andi Gutmans")

Damn, I think you are right :)
That's weird. There are some tools which only work with the .dll
filename (i.e. Windows Explorer).

Maybe my idea is better then :)
Andi=20

> -----Original Message-----
> From: William A. Rowe, Jr. [mailto:wrowe@rowe-clan.net]=20
> Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 10:53 PM
> To: Andi Gutmans
> Cc: internals@lists.php.net
> Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Feature(let) idea
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> Andi Gutmans wrote:
> > I got a feature idea from Apache. Apache will automatically=20
> translate=20
> > mod_rewrite.so in LoadModule to mod_rewrite.dll on Windows.
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> It does?  Apache/Win32 actually names the '.dll' as=20
> mod_rewrite.so on windows.  There's nothing special about the=20
> '.dll' filename extension, a similar example is the .cpl=20
> control panel extensions, which are .dll's that are loaded=20
> into the system settings schema, .scr for screensaver dll's=20
> following that API, etc.
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> In general, it's a good idea.  My builds of php on win32=20
> *are* entirely in the unix-style, for my customers who need=20
> to toggle between win32 and unix.  It makes the documentation=20
> much simpler when you don't need two entirely different sets.
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> Bill
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