On Sun, 2010-03-28 at 11:11 -0700, Jason Self wrote: > Ted Smith <[email protected]> wrote .. > > > The question is, do we want end users who install their own nodes to use > > a standard daemon + UI (or just a single program that functions as > > both), or a GLAMP stack + PHP GNU Social + web browser pointing at > > localhost. > > The web server + database + PHP model works in both situations where someone > might run it locally as well as in other cases on dirt cheap hosting (without > needing your web host to install "the GNU Social application") -- PHP is > ubiquitous -- and has the added benefit of not having to divide the focus of > the > community by maintaining more than one codebase for now. That isn't to say > that > things can't branch out later, but that's /later./
To branch out later, we would have to re-implement the entire core. That isn't something we should count on being able to do. This is a discussion better served in the "Languages -- let's make a web application" thread, however.
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