Rev cgi vs. php

[Luis]

The scriptLimits is a real PITA. I use three other commercial dev  
environments, neither of which are crippled in this way.
I haven't seen this type of limit imposed elsewhere (especially Open  
Source, that'd be like shooting yourself in the foot).

I wouldn't suggest it as an 'enhancement' as it is a deliberate  
limitation.
At times it feels like I'm using a trial version, purely because of  
this.

Cheers,

Luis.


On 30 Jan 2008, at 19:52, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> Andre Garzia wrote:
>
>> php is loaded as an apache module, so it has the feature of being one
>> engine handling eerything which makes some stuff easy such as session
>> tracking and data exchanges. It was also created from the ground  
>> up to
>> be a web thing, thus sporting lots of libraries that helps building
>> web stuff. With Rev, we have marvelous tools for the desktop but we
>> had to coin our own web libraries.
>> php has no scriptLimits, so it can read a chunk of text with mixed
>> code in it and execute it in place, this is the way php developers
>> usually code, they create web page templates with logic mixed with
>> presentation. This is not the most elegant way that the
>> über-pro-developers do but it makes good for quick prototyping and
>> templating. With Revolution we can't do that, as soon as we reach an
>> 11 statements chunck, we're dead.
>> If we had something like mod_revolution and no scriptLimits, we could
>> conquer the web in no time.
>
> Maybe we don't need to eliminate scriptLimits in general if they  
> were lifted for use within the CGI for the merge function.  Such a  
> restriction wouldn't pose a risk to RunRev, and would cover 99.9%  
> of all useful things we'd want to do with Rev on the web, wouldn't it?
>
> Shall I submit that enhancement request?  Should be simple to  
> implement.
>
> Less simple would be to make an Apache module out of Rev.  How much  
> work do you suppose that would be?
>
> I'm not too concerned about libraries.  After all, we have you. And  
> on your day off we have another couple thousand scripters who  
> collectively can churn out almost as much code as you. :)
>
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>  Richard Gaskin
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