Andrew McMillan wrote: > On Sat, 2009-04-18 at 11:16 +0200, Jerome Warnier wrote: > >> Tim Spriggs wrote: >> >>> Hi Jerome, >>> >>> If it is already packaged then the question begging to be asked is, >>> "why is the package not part of the Debian repository?" >>> >> Because of possible patent infringement in eAccelerator itself. It could >> be risky in the US to publish it. >> Andrew says more here (but I feel he is wrong): >> http://andrew.mcmillan.net.nz/node/70#comment-229 >> > > I'm happy to be wrong. I was only quoting hearsay, essentially, but > arguing with debian-legal appeared to me to be a wearying and > unproductive experience. Certainly harder than just building packages > and publishing them on my blog. I realise that's not a brilliant > solution for other people, but... :-) > > I didn't want to criticize you/your work. I was really happy that you did so (and maintained it for a while).
The Real(tm) & full explanation is here: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=445998 >> I also have to specify that Andrew is no longer able to give the >> packages so much care he did in the past, Real Life hit again. >> > > Sadly yes. Real life always catches up in the end :-) > > In fact I no longer use eAccelerator now that my server is running Lenny > and at some point it barfed on eAccelerator and I couldn't be arsed > tracking down exactly why, when I was instead able to switch to APC > which now does work for me (Gallery2 / Drupal / Mediawiki / > DAViCal / ...) and provides pretty much the same functionality. > I'm using Squirrelmail, Drupal, Gallery2, Dolibarr and some internally-developed PHP applications right now. All these happily run on eAccelerator on Linux on AMD64, x86 and even PowerPC[1]. Good to know you are "leaving" it. >> Yes, it is tightly linked to a version of PHP. In clear, you have to >> rebuild it everytime your rebuild PHP, which may be several times a year >> given security fixes. Yet, it really improves PHP speed, so is really >> important for any real PHP usage. >> >> As I read more on the subject, I'm wondering if I should not be using >> another opcode cacher now. >> Some of them are already officially packaged for Debian (like XCache), >> or are meant to be integrated in PHP6 (APC, read >> http://davidwalsh.name/php6). >> Previously, I used Zend Optimizer (which is not Free Software) and APC. >> > > Also a benchmark here: > > http://2bits.com/articles/benchmarking-apc-vs-eaccelerator-using-drupal.html > > This suggests that eAccelerator does have better performance than APC. I > have not used xcache. > Performance is not all. XCache is shipped with Lenny and APC is going to be included by default in PHP6. > Regards, > Andrew McMillan. > [1] Though I realize it needed the same configure option (--with-eaccelerator-userid=www-data) as for Nexenta. _______________________________________________ gnusol-devel mailing list gnusol-devel@lists.sonic.net http://lists.sonic.net/mailman/listinfo/gnusol-devel
