Re: Mongrel and Windows: I was so dumb

["Evan Weaver" <evan-72XWLPH10WVXUHR/Jj/Uug@public.gmane.org>]

All sounds good.

Fastthread and cgi_multipart are going away so there is no sense
worrying about them. In 1.2 they get required if they are installed,
but they are not gem dependencies for any platform.

Evan

On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 12:25 AM, Luis Lavena <luislavena-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 1:04 AM, Evan Weaver <evan-72XWLPH10WVXUHR/Jj/Uug@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>  > Wow, that is bizarre.
>  >
>  >  The platform checks are fine. Do they belong in Mongrel, or do they
>  >  belong in the build chain?
>  >
>
>  Specific platform usage inside mongrel:
>
>  - To writer or not the pid file:
>
>  http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/browser/trunk/lib/mongrel/configurator.rb#L83
>
>  (which is pointless, it should generate the pid file on every
>  platform, even Windows).
>
>  - Allow or not daemonize:
>
>  http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/browser/trunk/lib/mongrel/configurator.rb#L189
>
>  Which is fair, it should remain there
>
>  - Setup signals:
>
>  http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/browser/trunk/lib/mongrel/configurator.rb#L364
>
>  Which is also good.
>
>  Other places:
>
>  http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/browser/trunk/bin/mongrel_rails#L139
>
>  the usage of restart on Windows, seems logical, since there are no
>  signals to handle it.
>
>  Oh, a good catch:
>
>  http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/browser/trunk/bin/mongrel_rails#L85
>
>  Mongrel should validate pre-existing pids always, not only in
>  daemonize mode. Thoughts?
>
>  To use or not fastthread and cgi eof fix.
>
>  http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/browser/trunk/lib/mongrel.rb#L13
>
>  Of course, a few more check on the new Logger (buffered logger) and
>  cgi_multipart eof subproject. Fastthread, GemPlugin and even
>  mongrel_service (yeah, I plain suck at planing on the long run).
>
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>
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