On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 07:45, Gregory Dudek wrote:
I think the purpose of PCGI has already been made apparent.
I wanted to comment that I think it is far from obsolete.
You may feel that there are still cases where PCGI is useful. But it isn't actively maintained and isn't slated to remain a part of standard Zope. It's deprecated for sure, but call it what you will.
There are significant reasons for wanting to run zope and apache in combination,
This isn't a special case. IMO, you should *always* put something in front of Zope in a production environment.
and PCGI is very desirable in such cases.
But not, apparently, the first choice of most people who set up services in this way. YMMV, of course.
Reasons for this range from support of legacy CGI or PHP applications
Apache does this without any help from Zope.
, to the need to maximize performance on large static objects (for which I find zope performance is still not very impressive).
Agreed. That's why I serve static objects directly from Apache whenever possible/practical. It's quite easy to set up Apache to serve certain directories from the filesystem and hand off everything else to Zope. FWIW, Dylan