[Rails] Re: Frustrated with RoR environment splintering

[Tom Mornini]

On Mar 31, 2006, at 10:28 PM, Ben Munat wrote:

> 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? ;-)

Well, no, not really. It's never been part of the Apache distribution  
before!

Has any other piece of the Apache distribution ever just vanished?

> PS: sorry Tom... couldn't resist

No problem!

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

Mongrel, mongrel, mongrel, mongrel...

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-- Tom Mornini