> On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 13:24, Ryan Bloom <[email protected]> wrote: >> Why do you want to jettison "edge platforms"? The original goal was to keep ... >> Removing this support takes away a web server (at the very least) from >> openBeOS, OS400, OS/2, etc.
Greg Stein <[email protected]> writes: > Then, there is the age-old answer, "those edge cases can stick to APR > 1.x and HTTPD 2.x." Modern operating systems would use APR 2.x and > HTTPD 3.x. (Aside: let's not confuse non-mainstream with non-modern.) I think wide portability is one of Apache's big advantages, even if not every supported platform has a 90% market share. If I were choosing a web server to use on a non-mainstream platform, I'd rather choose one I was already familiar with, or that once I learned it, I could apply that knowledge elsewhere, than one unique to that platform. I also believe portable code tends to be better code. -- Dan Poirier <[email protected]>
