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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] APC in trunk
From: rasmus@lerdorf.com (Rasmus Lerdorf)

On 6/20/10 2:05 PM, Lester Caine wrote:
> Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
>> On 6/20/10 1:21 PM, Lester Caine wrote:
>>> ( Foregot to change address again :( )
>>> Ilia Alshanetsky wrote:
>>>> What are your views on including APC in the core, or reasons not to?
>>>
>>> Dictatorship?
>>> Optional module which have well used alternatives should not be proced
>>> on by default! Probably more people use alternatives and have for years?
>>
>> pecl has been around for years.  Nobody else has submitted an opcode
>> cache to pecl.  We certainly would not have rejected any such
>> submission, and we still won't.
> 
> Well eaccelerator has served me well for years on both Windows and Linux
> and has been listed on wikipedia for years before APC was added ;) Just
> because people don't like restrictive source management does not mean
> good code is not available.

No, it is not enough to just have source code.  The developers need to
play along as well.

-Rasmus