Re: How kannel creates "cgi-bin" program to handle "http" requests

Hi,

the same from me. why to change default naming for no reason? and if you 
personally don't like cgi-bin/ you can always change it in your config.

Thanks,
Alex

Andreas Fink schrieb:
> Why change a running horse?
> 
> I can understand we can announce "breaking changes" in the NEWS.
> But there has to be a good reason for a change. like chaning from latin1 
> to utf8 which make's certain things no longer break.
> but changing the name of the /cgi-bin/sendsms string to /whatever for me 
> is breaking something which works for absolutely no benefit.
> 
> On 22.10.2008, at 15:50, Stipe Tolj wrote:
> 
>> Guillaume Cottenceau schrieb:
>>> "Alejandro Guerrieri" <aguerrieri 'at' kannel.org> writes:
>>>
>>>> I'm worried about backward compatibility. If it's removed and the 
>>>> cgi-bin URL
>>>> no longer works, people will have to modify their applications to 
>>>> point to the
>>>> new URL after the upgrade.
>>>
>>> As long as Kannel offers a clear "what changed" document in new
>>> releases, I don't see a problem. Well-designed applications don't
>>> hardcode paths, or hardcode it so that modifications are possible
>>> when needed. Well-behaving administrators/developers read what
>>> changed documents, and test new releases of software on a
>>> test/staging environment before going to production.
>>
>> yep, all "breaking changes" are documented in the NEWS file section.
>>
>>>> IMHO the ideal approach would be to be able to maintain the "old" 
>>>> url as well
>>>> (at least for the time being, maybe with a warning on the log files 
>>>> saying that
>>>> it is deprecated).
>>>
>>> It can be good to offer a backwards compatibility layer, but it
>>> also means 1- extra time needed for Kannel developers 2- more
>>> potential bugs (more lines of code = more bugs) 3- when this
>>> backwards compatibility is abandoned in next-next release, you'll
>>> still get angry users not reading documentation who will be
>>> bitten anyway.
>>
>> yep, which leads to the generic life problem: you can't make all 
>> people happy at
>> the same time ;) ... I call it MDSP in theoretical information science 
>> (multi
>> dimensional satisfactory problem)... BTW it's NP-hard.
>>
>> Stipe
>>
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