[Rails] Re: Frustrated with RoR environment splintering

[Ben Munat]

Tom Mornini wrote:
> On Mar 31, 2006, at 3:27 PM, Seth Brundle wrote:
> 
>>> You're right, but... FastCGI is not Rails.  fcgi and SCGI are not  
>>> Rails.
>>> The advantage to having all this flexibility is that if the  maintainer
>>> of one of those disappears for two years, you still have Rails and a
>>> variety of other platforms to run it on.
>>>
>>> If Rails settled on FCGI and FCGI's maintainers all gave up, where  
>>> would
>>> we be then?
>>
>>
>> Thats exactly my point - when I chose mod_perl it was not risky  
>> because both
>> the Apache Foundation and the Perl community were strongly behind  it. 
>> It wasnt
>> 'going away'.
>>
>> That isnt clear with any of the current Apache implementation  
>> persistance
>> solutions for RoR.
> 
> 
> I don't think that's a fair statement.
> 
> mod_fcgi isn't about to "go away", in fact, it's currently making a  
> comeback!
> 
> http://tinyurl.com/fgcfq
> 
Uh, well doesn't that mean that it went away before? ;-)

b

PS: sorry Tom... couldn't resist

PPS: oh yeah... I'm that annyoing container junkie: container, container, container!