I am curious how the number of downstream customers being Windows effects anything on the server side...
On Aug 17, 2012, at 2:16 PM, Jess Holle <[email protected]> wrote: > The fact that there is no event MPM equivalent for Windows is a huge gap for > 2.4.x. > > Given the large percentage of our downstream customers using Windows there's > not a huge motivation to move to 2.4.x. > > Moreover, it's my understanding that the event MPM falls back to behaving > like the worker MPM in SSL cases. Is that true? If so, then that further > decreases the motivation to move to 2.4.x. > > Overall, given that a large portion of our downstream usages are on Windows, > say 50% for the sake of argument, and that a large percentage of our usages > are HTTPS, again say 50% for the sake of argument, the benefits of the event > MPM are really quite narrow in practice in our case. > > That said, I didn't know or had forgotten that SSL didn't work with the > Windows MPM in 2.4.x. That would be a substantial regression from 2.2.x -- > and resolving this would clear the way for 2.4.x being GA barring any other > such regressions. > > -- > Jess Holle > > On 8/17/2012 12:48 PM, Jim Jagielski wrote: >> In the Announcement you'll see: >> >> NOTE to Windows users: The issues with AcceptFilter None replacing >> Win32DisableAcceptEx appears to have resolved starting with version >> 2.4.3 make Apache httpd 2.4.x suitable for Windows servers. >> >> NOTE: The event MPM is a *nix mpm and has never worked on Windows. >> >> On Aug 17, 2012, at 1:38 PM, Jess Holle <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Does the event MPM now: >>> • Work on Windows? >>> • Work with HTTPS? >>> When both are true 2.4.x will become very interesting. Until then, not so >>> much over 2.2.x. >>> >>> On 8/17/2012 12:34 PM, Jim Jagielski wrote: >>>> The pre-release test tarballs for Apache httpd 2.4.3 can be found >>>> at the usual place: >>>> >>>> >>>> http://httpd.apache.org/dev/dist/ >>>> >>>> >>>> I'm calling a VOTE on releasing these as Apache httpd 2.4.3 GA. >>>> NOTE: The -deps tarballs are included here *only* to make life >>>> easier for the tester. They will not be, and are not, part >>>> of the official release. >>>> >>>> [ ] +1: Good to go >>>> [ ] +0: meh >>>> [ ] -1: Danger Will Robinson. And why. >>>> >>>> Vote will last the normal 72 hrs. >>>> >>>> >> >
