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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] APC in trunk
From: lester@lsces.co.uk (Lester Caine)

Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
> 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.

? eaccelerator is being actively developed, and builds are available for more 
versions of windows setup than PHP itself currently supports so the developers 
of it are playing along much better then PHP core developers. And a number of 
alternatives have also been listed by others. So the question has to be "Why 
should APC be given special treatment?" Is it any better than the currently 
available alternatives or is it still playing catchup much like PDO?

Perhaps a poll on what people are actually using in production?

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