Re: GSoC
| From: | Antony Dovgal | Date: | Wed, 21 Mar 2007 13:09:56 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: GSoC | ||
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On 03/21/2007 03:48 PM, Robert Cummings wrote:
On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 11:57 +0300, Antony Dovgal wrote:I'm using PHP as a general purpose language either, but that doesn't mean I'm encoding video with it. There are specialized tools for that and I don't think we should re-implement them just "because we can" (c). Btw, if you read whole discussion (and not just the last email), you'd see that nobody even mentioned CLI.I don't think anybody sane is doing audio encoding and video resizing in PHP. PHP is about interface, clients are not going to wait an hour or two for a page to load.I think this is a limitation in your grasp of where and why PHP is being used. I (and many others I've seen pass through php-general -- and countless others I'm sure) use PHP as a general purpose scripting engine for not just the web, but for shell scripts, and anything else that comes to mind.
I'm sure the PHP-GTK and other GUI binding extensions would argue with you also.-- Wbr, Antony Dovgal