Of course this isn’t a super-important bug, it’s just something that would make working on multiple large WordPress sites much more pleasant, and I don’t think changing it would negatively impact anyone.
There’s also the side effect of making life easier for those individuals that lock themselves out of their site.
I’m curious as to why this is an issue and what problems it causes?
The biggest problem I have with it is that I cannot just duplicate the database when switching servers (new domain name, setting up development/staging servers, or working on the site on my local machine)
The workaround I’ve been using is keeping a SQL script for each server I use (to update the siteurl value), and run it after each time I import data.
This could probably be all fixed if bloginfo(‘siteurl’) didn’t look at the DB, and instead returned:
$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . $optional_subdirectory;
