Btw, I'm of course advocating doing this as a part of PHP 7, and not
in 5.6 or a minor version. There's going to be a migration process
from 5.6 to 7, and I think this part would be one of the easiest to
handle.
Zeev
> On 8 במאי 2014, at 17:02, Andi Gutmans <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On May 8, 2014, at 5:46 AM, Zeev Suraski <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>>
>>> For what it’s worth I don’t think we should stop supporting mod_php at this point
>>> in time.
>>> I think there are still plenty of situations where this is the easier, simpler route to
>>> go and quite robust.
>>
>> Such as?
>>
>> FastCGI (or fpm) is just as robust, it's a lot more scalable and has mostly just
>> advantages. The main thing mod_php has going for it is history. There are no real technological
>> advances and the rise of PHP on nginx can attest to that.
>
> There are tools and know-how out there on configuring various aspects of PHP through
> http.conf/.htaccess. Sure you can achieve most of that via FastCGI but I do not believe it’s as
> simple and straightforward and I still believe the majority of the PHP community is using mod_php.
> Re: nginx, the reality is, that while popular, it’s still not being used in the majority of
> environments. It’s being used more on the big, scale-out properties than on the massive of smaller
> PHP deployments.
>
> I guess we’ll need to agree to disagree on this one :)
>
> Andi
>