Re: [PHP4BETA] What is ext/lcg/lcg.c?

At 22:57 29/08/99 , Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:

Uhh, I have an almost working tarball here. With a bit of hacking it is serving pages pretty reliably. I wouldn't say it is years away.

I would. From the day you would be running it on your server, take at least a year or two before you can even remotely call it mainstream. That may be, but we need a PHP module for it before it is released or we risk being seen as lagging behind and if other server-side languages are Apache2 compatible before us it will influence decision-making out there. Apache is our bread and butter. We have to be on the ball when it comes to anything related to Apache. You can't take a server with over 60% marketshare lightly.

Apache 2.0 doesn't have even a single percent of market share, let alone 60%. Apache 1.3.x has about 35 or 40, and Apache 1.2.x has about 20-25. As such, it'll be a long while before Apache 2.x is our bread and butter, if it ever catches through. My point here is that we must not rely on Apache 2.0 hooks to implement anything in our architecture, because Apache 2.0 isn't something our users are likely to use in the next few years. Did we (I) get carried away off the subject? Perhaps. I don't mind seeing these SAPI startup/shutdown functions introduced. What I do mind is an introduction of a programming methodology that's not portable. Perhaps the session module is unique (and popular) enough to contain platform specific code & architecture. In general, though, we should not encourage platform specific code even if it features slight improvements here or there. Zeev -- Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com> http://www.zend.com/ For a PGP public key, finger bourbon@netvision.net.il