Re: [PHP-DEV] Why we don’t like PHP / PHP’s anti-Apache2 FUD

2004-12-22 Thread Wez Furlong
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4117711.stm Not exactly a ringing endorsement ;-) --Wez. On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 02:14:31 +0100, Jochem Maas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > phpbb (if nothing else, a well known app in php-land) state in their > changelog: > > "running phpBB 2.0.x with PHP5 is not

Re: [PHP-DEV] Why we don’t like PHP / PHP’s anti-Apache2 FUD

2004-12-22 Thread Paul G
- Original Message - From: "Jochem Maas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Wez Furlong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 11:08 PM Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Why we don’t like PHP / PHP’s anti-Apache2 FUD > completely off-topic: I just

Re: [PHP-DEV] Why we don’t like PHP / PHP’s anti-Apache2 FUD

2004-12-22 Thread Ilia Alshanetsky
Jochem Maas wrote: the point stands that php5 also gets unproductive coverage, and both camps working together make a much greater force against any FUD. Any new release that in some situations breaks backwards compatibility will get some negative press. Ultimately, in successful products a poin

Re: [PHP-DEV] Why we don’t like PHP / PHP’s anti-Apache2 FUD

2004-12-22 Thread Jochem Maas
Wez Furlong wrote: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4117711.stm Not exactly a ringing endorsement ;-) lol. not at all surprising (I'm familiar with their code). but the point stands that php5 also gets unproductive coverage, and both camps working together make a much greater force against a

Re: [PHP-DEV] Why we don’t like PHP / PHP’s anti-Apache2 FUD

2004-12-22 Thread George Schlossnagle
I'd like to invite all the folks who have been posting in this thread who lament PHPs support (or partial lack there of) for Apache 2 to dig into the SAPI and improve it. Open source is driven by both personal interest and project momentum, and I'm sure if you all start contributing improvemen

Re: [PHP-DEV] Why we don’t like PHP / PHP’s anti-Apache2 FUD

2004-12-22 Thread Jochem Maas
it may be worth noting that the percieved sentiment towards apache2 (as compared to apache) by the php 'crowd' (and others), is something that php5 may very well be suffering from itself: phpbb (if nothing else, a well known app in php-land) state in their changelog: "running phpBB 2.0.x with P

Re: [PHP-DEV] Why we don’t like PHP /

2004-12-22 Thread Lester Caine
Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: The warning and FAQ entry was written quite a while ago. I have updated it now to just talk about threading issues and that people should stick to the prefork MPM, at least on Unix systems. Look forward to it rippling through the mirrors. Thanks. -- Lester Caine ---

Re: [PHP-DEV] Why we don’t like PHP /

2004-12-22 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
Andi Gutmans wrote: Hi, I've got to say that I have seen quite a few very heavily loaded sites using Apache 2 pre-fork and PHP. Although we have had a few bugs in the past few months in the Apache 2 SAPI I think it's quite stable today, and some of those bugs wouldn't have affected many people.

Re: [PHP-DEV] Why we don’t like PHP /

2004-12-22 Thread Christian Schneider
Paul Querna wrote: just a general feeling that it isn't tested as much. As one of the Apache Developers, I would be happy to help with any issues PHP has in its Apache 2 SAPI. I think that's an offer the PHP community should accept ;-) - Chris -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing Li

Re: [PHP-DEV] Why we don’t like PHP /

2004-12-22 Thread Peter Brodersen
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 00:49:15 -0600, in php.internals [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Querna) wrote: >> [a bit offtopic: I really miss the ProxyPreserveHost directive in >> Apache1, but I suppose that I and other developers just use some [..] >Am I missing something? > >http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod

Re: [PHP-DEV] Why we don’t like PHP /

2004-12-21 Thread Paul Querna
Peter Brodersen wrote: I haven't Netcrafted for the numbers, but I reckon there are more Apache2-prefork with PHP out there in production than Caudium-servers running PHP. If this is the case, how can we discourage people from running one specific webserver, but not all the other webservers? As the

Re: Re: [PHP-DEV] Why we don’t like PHP /

2004-12-21 Thread Andi Gutmans
Hi, I've got to say that I have seen quite a few very heavily loaded sites using Apache 2 pre-fork and PHP. Although we have had a few bugs in the past few months in the Apache 2 SAPI I think it's quite stable today, and some of those bugs wouldn't have affected many people. It's definitely ge

Re: [PHP-DEV] Why we don’t like PHP /

2004-12-21 Thread Lukas Smith
Peter Brodersen wrote: On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 00:19:50 +0100 (CET), in php.internals [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Derick Rethans) wrote: Why would we (as PHP developers) invest time in something while the current version provides us with all we need? To sum the current webpages up (under the unix-install-page

Re: [PHP-DEV] Why we don’t like PHP /

2004-12-21 Thread Peter Brodersen
On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 00:19:50 +0100 (CET), in php.internals [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Derick Rethans) wrote: >Why would we (as PHP developers) invest time in something while the >current version provides us with all we need? To sum the current webpages up (under the unix-install-page): "Installation und

Re: [PHP-DEV] Why we don’t like PHP /

2004-12-21 Thread Lester Caine
Lester Caine wrote: Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: If I am in the minority I don't mind suggesting people use Apache2, but we need a bunch of PHP developers to stand up and say they are using Apache2-prefork in large production systems. http://www.lulu.com/ This is a heavy load site, and somewhere else th

Re: [PHP-DEV] Why we don’t like PHP /

2004-12-21 Thread Lester Caine
Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: If I am in the minority I don't mind suggesting people use Apache2, but we need a bunch of PHP developers to stand up and say they are using Apache2-prefork in large production systems. I've never used anything else on all my sites, along with PHP5 starting pre-release, beca

Re: [PHP-DEV] Why we don’t like PHP /

2004-12-20 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
On Mon, 20 Dec 2004, Lester Caine wrote: > The Apache2 debate is more interesting. I am just running up a nice new > AMD64, with SUSE9.1 (no 9.2 disk handy), and the first thing I find - > and which does not bother me at all - ONLY Apache2 in the distribution. > I KNOW all the reasons for feet drag

Re: [PHP-DEV] Why we don’t like PHP /

2004-12-20 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
;) I wrote the first Apache module version of PHP in 1995 though. -Rasmus On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, Christian Schneider wrote: > Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > > actually researching why something is a certain way. There was a time > > when there was no AddHandler directive. Addtype was the way you did >

Re: [PHP-DEV] Why we don’t like PHP /

2004-12-20 Thread George Schlossnagle
On Dec 20, 2004, at 8:44 PM, Gareth Ardron wrote: George Schlossnagle wrote: At some point you'll have to face it: Apache 2 is becoming a popular "platform". It's obviously up to you at what point you'll consider this important enough to spend time on it but a reality check every so often is nev

Re: [PHP-DEV] Why we don’t like PHP /

2004-12-20 Thread Christian Schneider
Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: actually researching why something is a certain way. There was a time when there was no AddHandler directive. Addtype was the way you did According to the Apache documentation AddHandler appeared in Apache 1.1. I'm impressed with your memory, it's better than the memory o

Re: [PHP-DEV] Why we don’t like PHP /

2004-12-20 Thread Wez Furlong
OpenSource being what it is (e.g.: "get your finger out"), it seems to me like we will get stable Apache 2 support when someone knowledgeable in the Apache 2 guts sits down and does the work. We don't have any resident Apache 2 experts (e.g.: we've established that 1.3 works fine for us in our bus

Re: [PHP-DEV] Why we don’t like PHP /

2004-12-20 Thread Gareth Ardron
George Schlossnagle wrote: At some point you'll have to face it: Apache 2 is becoming a popular "platform". It's obviously up to you at what point you'll consider this important enough to spend time on it but a reality check every so often is never a bad thing. Not to sound overly American, but

Re: [PHP-DEV] Why we don’t like PHP /

2004-12-20 Thread Olivier Hill
Hello, Christian Schneider wrote: Because more and more people want to run Apache 2 for different reasons? Other modules support! Many new modules are written with the Apache 2 API and I can't use them because I want to keep running Apache 1.3. But I can surely see why some want to switch. At so

Re: [PHP-DEV] Why we don’t like PHP /

2004-12-20 Thread George Schlossnagle
On Dec 20, 2004, at 8:05 PM, Christian Schneider wrote: Derick Rethans wrote: Why would we (as PHP developers) invest time in something while the current version provides us with all we need? Because more and more people want to run Apache 2 for different reasons? According to your argument PHP w

Re: [PHP-DEV] Why we don’t like PHP /

2004-12-20 Thread Christian Schneider
Derick Rethans wrote: Why would we (as PHP developers) invest time in something while the current version provides us with all we need? Because more and more people want to run Apache 2 for different reasons? According to your argument PHP would only need to support one single OS and Webserver bec

Re: [PHP-DEV] Why we don’t like PHP /

2004-12-20 Thread Dan Kalowsky
On Mon, 20 Dec 2004, Lester Caine wrote: The Apache2 debate is more interesting. I am just running up a nice new AMD64, with SUSE9.1 (no 9.2 disk handy), and the first thing I find - and which does not bother me at all - ONLY Apache2 in the distribution. I KNOW all the reasons for feet dragging,

Re: [PHP-DEV] Why we don’t like PHP /

2004-12-20 Thread Derick Rethans
On Mon, 20 Dec 2004, Lester Caine wrote: > Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > > > Like with most of the criticisms along these lines, they don't > > bother actually researching why something is a certain way. There > > was a time when there was no AddHandler directive. Addtype was the > > way you did this.

Re: [PHP-DEV] Why we don’t like PHP / PHP’s anti -Apache2 FUD

2004-12-20 Thread Paul Reinheimer
I would personally consider Rich Bowen an authority on the subject, and as such trust what he is saying as true. paul On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 20:28:09 -, Nuno Lopes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is the AddType stuff true? > > If yes, I can change the docs to AddHandler.. > > Nuno > > - Or

Re: [PHP-DEV] Why we don’t like PHP /

2004-12-20 Thread Lester Caine
Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: Like with most of the criticisms along these lines, they don't bother actually researching why something is a certain way. There was a time when there was no AddHandler directive. Addtype was the way you did this. Since AddType works with every version of Apache I never

Re: [PHP-DEV] Why we don’t like PHP / PHP’s anti-Apache2 FUD

2004-12-20 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
Like with most of the criticisms along these lines, they don't bother actually researching why something is a certain way. There was a time when there was no AddHandler directive. Addtype was the way you did this. Since AddType works with every version of Apache I never saw a reason to chang

Re: [PHP-DEV] Why we don’t like PHP / PHP’s anti-Apache2 FUD

2004-12-20 Thread Nuno Lopes
Is the AddType stuff true? If yes, I can change the docs to AddHandler.. Nuno - Original Message - From: "Sebastian Bergmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 20, 2004 2:21 PM Subject: [PHP-DEV] Why we don’t like PHP / PHP’s

[PHP-DEV] Why we don’t like PHP / PHP’s anti-Apache2 FUD

2004-12-20 Thread Sebastian Bergmann
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