On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Sascha Schumann wrote: > Now, we could solve both problems by using a handler and > the prefork MPM. But then, Apache 2.0+PHP is basically > Apache 1.3+PHP with a few extra modules thrown in. That's > how it appears to the end-user at least.
I don't buy that argument. Are you saying that if Apache 1.4 had been released with a couple extra modules but no threading or filters, then PHP would have stuck with 1.3 because it works "well enough"? No, I hope PHP would have updated to 1.4 to take advantage of the current development efforts. Those development efforts include not just a couple new modules (major ones like mod_ssl, mod_dav, mod_deflate, mod_auth_ldap, etc), but lots and lots of other enhancements (IPv6, PCRE, improved negotiation, better documentation, better non-unix support, many bug fixes, etc). So why not just do a handler-based PHP for 2.0, and work on other problems in the future. This is a silly family quarel that is making everyone look bad. Joshua.
