Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:28527 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 79715 invoked by uid 1010); 21 Mar 2007 13:10:05 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 79700 invoked from network); 21 Mar 2007 13:10:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 21 Mar 2007 13:10:04 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=antony@zend.com; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=antony@zend.com; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain zend.com designates 212.25.124.162 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: antony@zend.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 212.25.124.162 mail.zend.com Linux 2.5 (sometimes 2.4) (4) Received: from [212.25.124.162] ([212.25.124.162:19553] helo=mail.zend.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 4B/E5-21072-AAE21064 for ; Wed, 21 Mar 2007 08:10:04 -0500 Received: (qmail 29093 invoked from network); 21 Mar 2007 13:08:01 -0000 Received: from internal.zend.office (HELO ?127.0.0.1?) (10.1.1.1) by internal.zend.office with SMTP; 21 Mar 2007 13:08:01 -0000 Message-ID: <46012EA4.4040905@zend.com> Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 16:09:56 +0300 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0b2 (X11/20070116) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Cummings CC: internals@lists.php.net References: <1405337330.20070315155023@marcus-boerger.de> <4E49AB3E-7BCE-4B10-8696-F0427C4AAAD4@prohost.org> <1475201111.20070315162711@marcus-boerger.de> <167173066.20070315224827@marcus-boerger.de> <45049.216.230.84.67.1174434279.squirrel@www.l-i-e.com> <4600F35E.2050707@zend.com> <1174481295.24632.209.camel@blobule> In-Reply-To: <1174481295.24632.209.camel@blobule> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=KOI8-R; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] GSoC From: antony@zend.com (Antony Dovgal) On 03/21/2007 03:48 PM, Robert Cummings wrote: > On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 11:57 +0300, Antony Dovgal wrote: >> >> I don't think anybody sane is doing audio encoding and video resizing in PHP. >> PHP is about interface, clients are not going to wait an hour or two for a page to load. > > I think this is a limitation in your grasp of where and why PHP is being > used. I (and many others I've seen pass through php-general -- and > countless others I'm sure) use PHP as a general purpose scripting engine > for not just the web, but for shell scripts, and anything else that > comes to mind. I'm using PHP as a general purpose language either, but that doesn't mean I'm encoding video with it. There are specialized tools for that and I don't think we should re-implement them just "because we can" (c). Btw, if you read whole discussion (and not just the last email), you'd see that nobody even mentioned CLI. > I'm sure the PHP-GTK and other GUI binding extensions would argue with you also. -- Wbr, Antony Dovgal