Re: GSoC

On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 16:09 +0300, Antony Dovgal wrote: > On 03/21/2007 03:48 PM, Robert Cummings wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 11:57 +0300, Antony Dovgal wrote: > >> > >> 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 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). It's common in PHP to take specialized tools and create a PHP wrapper layer. I would never suggest re-implementation when a great lib already exists. > Btw, if you read whole discussion (and not just the last email), you'd see that nobody > even mentioned CLI. I did read the entire discussion... but that doesn't change the point of the comment :) Cheers, Rob. -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :------------------------------------------------------------: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | `------------------------------------------------------------'