EllisLab/CodeIgniter — comment on commit a89efb659e4a593deb55bfa4d1fbaa74dfe10dc5
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By seejohnrun:

To be fair you could have a file alongside index.php, which sources index.php
I guess i'm pretty sold on how thing are though. People probably wouldn't react well to a non-web file alongside index.php