Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:14128 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 46149 invoked by uid 1010); 20 Dec 2004 23:21:06 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 42981 invoked from network); 20 Dec 2004 23:19:52 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO jdi.jdimedia.nl) (212.204.192.51) by pb1.pair.com with SMTP; 20 Dec 2004 23:19:52 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jdi.jdimedia.nl (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id iBKNJq8n027261 for ; Tue, 21 Dec 2004 00:19:52 +0100 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jdi.jdimedia.nl (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id iBKNJodE027253; Tue, 21 Dec 2004 00:19:51 +0100 Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 00:19:50 +0100 (CET) X-X-Sender: derick@localhost To: Lester Caine cc: internals@lists.php.net In-Reply-To: <20041220222248.49013.qmail@pb1.pair.com> Message-ID: References: <000601c4e6d2$6bda0f30$0100a8c0@pc07653> <41C74D41.7060608@lerdorf.com> <20041220222248.49013.qmail@pb1.pair.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at jdimedia.nl Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Why we =?windows-1252?Q?don=92t_like_PHP_/_?= From: derick@php.net (Derick Rethans) On Mon, 20 Dec 2004, Lester Caine wrote: > Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > > > Like with most of the criticisms along these lines, they don't > > bother actually researching why something is a certain way. There > > was a time when there was no AddHandler directive. Addtype was the > > way you did this. Since AddType works with every version of Apache > > I never saw a reason to change this even after AddHandler was added > > since it is purely academic in nature. > > I think that is a minor matter anyway, my own installation notes > follow old practices, but it is about time that I tidied them up. > > The Apache2 debate is more interesting. I am just running up a nice > new AMD64, with SUSE9.1 (no 9.2 disk handy), and the first thing I > find - and which does not bother me at all - ONLY Apache2 in the > distribution. I KNOW all the reasons for feet dragging, and I am > doing it myself over VCL/Win32 and Microsoft's latest 'standards', but > at some point we will all have to give in an move on. Is now not the > time at least to start treating Apache2 as a current version, and > start looking into the problems? Why would we (as PHP developers) invest time in something while the current version provides us with all we need? Derick -- Derick Rethans http://derickrethans.nl | http://ez.no | http://xdebug.org