Re: pecl, zts, non-zts, fastcgi and Apache

hi Bill, On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 11:29 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. <wrowe@rowe-clan.net> wrote: > On 2/28/2012 3:41 PM, Sebastian Bergmann wrote: >> On 02/28/2012 02:44 PM, Christopher Jones wrote: >>> Build PHP with ZTS enabled by default. Allow it to be explicitly >>> disabled during 'configure' >> >>  Why punish everyone by default because of Apache? Does not make sense to >>  me. > > What is so difficult to grok about Nothing, but it is easier to get a point when the rhetorical comments are removed :) >  1. setting up php-cgi to use fastcgi as the httpd default. > >  2. having parallel non-zts and zts installs of php (notably with only >    non-zts cli and cgi sapi's) with two different lib paths.  Multiply >    by two again if you have parallel i686 and x86_64 installs. > > All of these are packager's questions anyways, as so few users do this > for themself, most hosters aren't rebuilding php either. Right, and that's a rather big change, package wised. While the lbraries (systems) are the same, at lest for 99.99% of them. There are a few which can be built in TS or not TS mode but I don't think it is worth it. > PHP would be a much nicer, friendly and more civilized development list > if it borrowed only one phrase from the Perl community; TMTOWTDI. Civilized sounds very wrong in this context, or in general these days. Cheers, -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org