[Zope] Re: why will FastCGI not be supported in the Future.

[Andrew Milton]

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| Andrew Milton wrote:
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| > | Effective from Zope 2.9 I marked FCGI as deprecated - both in the 
| > | documentation and through a deprecation warning in the sources. Please note 
| > | that it does not mean that the FCGI might go away automatically in the 
| > | future. This is basically a reminder for people using FCGI that there is a 
| > | better way (in our opinion) to run Zope under  Apache than using FCGI.
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| > This of course assumes the entire world runs Apache.
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| How big do you imagine the set is of people running Zope via FastCGI who
| are *not* running Apache as the front end?  Now how big is the
| intersection of that set with the set of folks who have (and will use)
| commit access to Zope?
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| The real issue from Andreas' point of view is that *nobody* who helps
| maintain Zope also knows and uses FastCGI;  *he* used to be the person
| who did know it (per http://www.fastcgi.com/), but no longer.
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| Without such a person or persons, Zope cannot really claim to support
| FastCGI at all.

My issue isn't with the loss of FCGI (although I know a few hosting companies
that might be upset at that, perhaps you can scare them into funding its
maintainence d8). It's with the way that there is 'a real issue' and a
'made up justification'. 

If there's noone around who can maintain it, then just say that. Don't say
there's 'a better way', because I can guarantee you the people using FCGI are
using it for a reason, and there isn't a "better way" for them. 

P.S. 

I can imagine a pretty big set of people running Zope via FCGI who are
not running Apache.. I can also imagine that magical code fairies fight with
magical code trolls to the death to decide what pieces of code stay and which 
pieces go.

-- 
Andrew Milton
akm at theinternet.com.au