Paul A Houle wrote:
[..cut..] > very little to offer end users. A few people thought it would be great > to have pluggable MPM's, and a few other people introduced half-baked > systems such as mod_cache and filters. You know a tree by its fruit, What is half-baked about filters? Without them many of the things that also 3rd party modules use would not be possible or much harder to do. You are right one of the good thing is that you can do many things with modules in httpd but this requires a good and flexible framework and API which can be always improved. mod_cache is experimental in 2.0.x and has improved much in the trunk. It is much more any caching (reverse) proxy could do as it is more of a caching framework. If you would have taken a look at the background of the people who submitted many of the mod_cache patches during recent times you would have noticed that these are people which use mod_cache at big sites and are real power users of httpd. > and the fruit I care about is performance and reliability. Apache > 2.0.54 is a great server, but the fact that it took 54 revisions to get > there isn't a good indication about the design and development process. > Version numbers are cheap and say nothing here. 2.0.35 was the first GA release, and thus 2.0.54 is not that high as it seems. Regards Rüdiger
