[fpc-pascal] Powtils Apache and Windows Seven 64bits

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Tue, 25 May 2010, Bee Jay wrote:

>
> On 25 Mei 2010, at 15:12, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
>
>> Seems like Graeme is not the only one who is not always listening:
>
> Hahahaha... I know. :D When you point a finger, there are three fingers pointing back at you! ;)
>
>> I said several times before, FastCGI exists since a long time in Free Pascal; why would you need ExtPascal code for it ?
>
> Sorry, maybe I missed some of your emails. When I needed FCGI, I found
> ExtPascal first before fpWeb.  I found fpWeb when my app had coded mostly
> using ExtPascal.  So, I ignored it at that time.  Now, I'm considering to
> use fpWeb for my next projects.  But, the lack of CGI gateway/proxy
> support, and knowing ExtPascal code got refactor lately, I haven't yet
> made any decision.  Any suggestion?

The CGI gateway is on my todo list, as you know.
Other than that, I have no suggestions other than the observations I already
gave.

>
>> All in all, I see very little reason for using ExtPascal - if you are
>> interested only in the FastCGI code. If you want ExtJS, it's a different
>> story.
>
> Though I no longer use ExtPascal, except to maintain 2 legacy web apps
> that already been on production, I still care about this project.  Its
> future is still promising to provide web app dev tool using pascal. 
> Especially when Wanderlan is starting to work on the web IDE.  Perhaps
> fpWeb got better design and all, but the ease of use of ExtPascal made it
> more attractive to common delphi/pascal programmers, especially with ExtP
> Toolkit.  I even promoting it in my local delphi/pascal community, along
> with fpWeb and FreeSpider.  More alternative is better for the community,
> I suppose.  ;)

Obviously. I think ExtPascal is promising, but sadly suffers from some major
design flaws (garbage collect, thread model); which prevent me from
using it: they can (and do) lead to serious memory corruption.

I still follow its progress, but see no signs that the design flaws will 
be fixed, even with the recent refactorings :/

Michael.