On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 3:23 AM, Michael Shadle<mike...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Andrei today has officially given his word that he will not be able to
> support the project anymore.
>
> I am working in the background to take over the domains and assets.
>
> The only bottleneck (according to Rasmus who is here in Portland
> speaking right now) was the license. Andrei was holding out until it
> was "feature complete" before he changed the license to be
> PHP-compatible, but he has announced on the mailing list that it is
> now BSD licensed, and has included a LICENSE file in the .tar.gz file.
>
> Rasmus said it makes sense to become a PECL module. I am not a
> low-level developer. I am a PHP level script developer.
>
> So I would need someone who understands PHP internals, how to make a
> PECL module, and it would help to determine how to port this into the
> PECL framework. It basically creates a daemon based off libevent, and
> I'm not sure how that works as a PECL module; it seems like it needs
> to be something that gets into PHP core, or is a secondhand binary
> shipped with PHP. I may be out of my league though.
>
> Either way, I'm following the steps Rasmus told me to go. He said
> there was interest in one of the mailing lists in the past about
> getting PHP-FPM into PECL or PHP in general, but the license was the
> only piece really stopping it. That is no longer the case (and we'll
> do whatever is necessary to make that more official...)
>
> Any help is appreciated, either on-list or off-list.

Great news!
Original plan was to merge PHP-FPM into sapi/cgi and, I believe,
Dmitry was going initiate this process more than a year ago. I added
him and "internals" php list to CC.

-- 
Alexey Zakhlestin
http://www.milkfarmsoft.com/

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