On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 09:54 +0100, Marcus Don wrote: > [...] > > If you are interested in the possibility of Cherokee becoming a serious > alternative to Apache for commercial, mass hosting, please let me know. >
I can give you my opinion, but in no way I'm speaking on behalf of Cherokee project or the Cherokee community. I think it can be a good idea to provide a plugin for Cherokee so it can support mod_rewrite alike rules (I guess it's more like a htaccess interface that supports Apache compatible rules, including rewrite). As you said, anybody that it's interested can enable the plugin, and the details of the implementation in terms of performance won't be relevant for the users that don't use it. That's OK. The point it's that 'code dump' usually doesn't work: - You need to submit something that actually works and it's kind of documented. - You have to find a maintainer (yourself, or somebody else) for that plugin, so it doesn't rot in the source tree after a couple of releases. After that, there will be a review and, if everything's OK, I'm sure it will be included into Cherokee official code (meaning that Cherokee project will support it, I guess Álvaro can confirm that). I've contributed myself a plugin, and it's stuck in Cherokee's bugtrack, probably because it's not as interesting as the feature you're offering, or just because I failed in some of the mentioned points :) Anyway, I think that if it's a valuable feature for you, you should do it, and I'm sure you'll find help from other developers of the team and, eventually, it can be included into Cherokee. Kind regards, Juanjo PS: I could help, but it's not a feature I need currently, so my motivation may be not enough strong. -- jjm's home: http://www.usebox.net/jjm/ blackshell: http://blackshell.usebox.net/ ramble on: http://rambleon.usebox.net/ _______________________________________________ Cherokee mailing list [email protected] http://lists.octality.com/listinfo/cherokee
