From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Rant (was Re: Plan9 and Ada95?) In-Reply-To: Message from Steve Kilbane of "Fri, 09 Nov 2001 00:30:57 GMT." <200111090030.AAA21148@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <24569.1005289364@apnic.net> From: George Michaelson Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 17:02:44 +1000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 1aade41c-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Apache is a bad idea because like mozilla, it carries the leaden weight of history around inside it. It has code inside to do threading. This is presumably irrelevant on plan9. It has code to pre-fork children. ditto. It has code to work around Microsoft .DLL strangeness. It has its own shared-library runtime load code. It has backwards compatibility code for NCSA httpd. If you want it because it has HTTP 1.1 conformant implementation, or an interesting model of how to represent a file directory as web, thats surely better done discretely? If you want a service which understands apache .htaccess formatted data, that too is surely better written another way? I can understand wanting to un-tar a tree of web, including .htaccess, even parse an httpd.conf but to port the daemon.. cheers -George -- George Michaelson | APNIC Email: ggm@apnic.net | PO Box 2131 Milton QLD 4064 Phone: +61 7 3367 0490 | Australia Fax: +61 7 3367 0482 | http://www.apnic.net