On Thursday 10 February 2005 11:56, Nick Maynard wrote: >> OK - let's face it. Most people who seriously run Apache (1.3/2) run it >> on a UNIX system. Often Linux. Some people have switched from Apache >> 1.3 to Apache 2 for a variety of reasons, but from my POV the new MPMs >> were the primary reason for switching to Apache 2.
I don't think this is true. The primary audience for MPMs is the developers rather than end users: Now the Windows port of httpd can now be Windows specific, rather than be buggy code full of #ifdefs. From an end user perspective it means that the code is more reliable, but at the end of the day a platform will probably have a preferred MPM, unless the user has special needs. MPMs are something most users will not need to worry about. If there is just one MPM for a platform, even if that platform is Unix in general, that's fine as long as that MPM works. If a second MPM comes along and is better, then so be it. If an MPM exists as an experiment, but ends up abandoned because another MPM is better, this isn't a problem. The only requirement is that there is at least one MPM for a platform, and it works. My primary reasons for switching to v2.0 and then v2.1 (as a webmaster) were filters and the caching code. Regards, Graham --
