On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 4:09 PM, Michael Shadle <mike...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Antony Dovgal <t...@daylessday.org>
> wrote:
>
> > I mentioned it, albeit briefly:
> > * basic SAPI status info (similar to Apache mod_status)
>
> Missed it (oops)
>
> > We've discussed this many times and I thought it's pretty clear that
> php.ini
> > syntax won't fit in this situation - the requirements are completely
> different.
> >
> >> - this will make it easier to adopt
> >
> > I don't see how.
>
> When people see XML a lot of people have tried to use xpath and other
> XML functionality - when really it's not a full-on XML document at
> all. (People have asked on the mailing list) - also it's an external
> configuration file with it's own syntax. It feels a bit foreign from
> how people are used to configuring PHP. (I admit I do not have a
> better alternative other than trying the php.ini approach which I
> guess has been shot down now) - I am looking for the easiest path for
> people to use this, that's all.
>
> Perhaps some php.ini options for the pid file, config file, etc. So it
> is not defined at compile time?
>
> Also one other feature that would be neat is an "include"
> functionality in the config file, which could help automated pool
> definitions from scripts be created. A bit OT for this though.
>
> > They can do it any time - testing and reporting issues is a lot of work.
>
> I have a lot of machines at my disposal and such and would love a way
> to be able to put PHP-FPM through it's paces by running test scripts
> or anything. I personally do not know how to create them nor what
> portions are useful to test (tricky internals that might break under
> certain situations, things that might have been changed when you moved
> it from launchpad -> PHP SVN, etc.) - note that PHP-FPM for PHP 5.2.x
> (the patch) seems to be solid as a rock, but 5.3 has had a handful of
> issues or other complaints. So there is some fundamental differences
> somewhere and those are the kind of things I'd like to figure out how
> to get automated testing on...
>
> > Patches are also appreciated, no need to wait for a 'go ahead' from
> anyone to do this.
>
> I just thought of a slightly more formal approach - perhaps a small
> roadmap or prioritization of features - something small would be easy
> to adopt in 5.4 without causing possible instability - but something
> larger might be "don't bother with that right now - it is too big of a
> change and won't make it in to 5.4 anyway. how about you tackle this
> first?"
>
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> From a testing standpoint, if this becomes a new sapi, do we need to
introduce a new construct for dealing with tests that need to run on this
sapi only?

Example: --FPM-- which would be similar to the --CGI-- construct which
denotes that test as cgi sapi only.

Eric Lee Stewart

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