Re: Why we don’t like PHP /

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. Since AddType works with every version of Apache > > I never saw a reason to change this even after AddHandler was added > > since it is purely academic in nature. > > I think that is a minor matter anyway, my own installation notes > follow old practices, but it is about time that I tidied them up. > > 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, and I am > doing it myself over VCL/Win32 and Microsoft's latest 'standards', but > at some point we will all have to give in an move on. Is now not the > time at least to start treating Apache2 as a current version, and > start looking into the problems? Why would we (as PHP developers) invest time in something while the current version provides us with all we need? Derick -- Derick Rethans http://derickrethans.nl | http://ez.no | http://xdebug.org