Moving this thread to internals, where it belongs. Full thread is below:
On Fri, 23 Apr 2010, Jérôme Loyet wrote:
> Le 23 avril 2010 13:09, Derick Rethans <derick@php.net> a écrit :> > On Fri, 23 Apr 2010, Jérôme Loyet wrote:> >> >> Le 23 avril 2010 11:31, Derick Rethans <derick@php.net> a écrit :> >> > On Wed, 21 Apr 2010, Jérôme Loyet wrote:> >> >>> >> >> Log:> >> >> switch the configuration syntax from xml to ini> >> >> It's been describe in the RFC: http://wiki.php.net/rfc/fpm/ini_syntax> >>> >> > I feel extremely unhappy about this patch. From what I've seen there> >> > is only a very small group of people that want to switch from the> >> > XML format to the INI format. Another group, was opposed to this> >> > move. I for one, find this new INI stuff extremely complicated and> >> > annoying.> >>> >> Please compare http://www.fatbsd.com/fpm/php-fpm.conf.ini and> >> http://www.fatbsd.com/fpm/php-fpm.conf.xml> >> Those 2 files have exactly the same values.> >>> >> root@raptor> wc php-fpm.conf.*> >> 33 28 683 php-fpm.conf.ini> >> 48 77 1554 php-fpm.conf.xml> >>> >> Number of lines: 32% less lines in INI than XML> >> Number of words: 64% less words in INI than XML> >> Numbers of bytes: 57% less bytes in INI than XML> >>> >> Do you really think XML is easier to read/right than INI ?> >> > Conciseness has never been a synonym for readability.> >> > The structured approach of the XML makes it much easier to see exactly> > which value belongs to which section.> > in php-fpm there is only one level of section.> > One section == One pool. That's all> > In the current XML syntax there is several level of section which are> total useless. They have been removed in INI.
They are still there (besides one, "section pool", but there is a new
level too):
global (is <configuration>
section www (is <workers>, <value name='name'>www</value>)
listen
listen.allowed (this is actually a new level)
pm <value pm>
pm.max_children
env
env[PATH] (Why is this different again?!)
Besides all the levels still being there, it is extremely hard to spot
them!
> >> > Instead of a nice ordered XML file we now have a mess of INI files> >> > that makes me think of Windows 3.11.> >>> >> So in your mind you want the php.ini to be changed to xml (php.xml) ?> >> > No, they are two different things. php.ini doesn't need sections, or> > nested structures whereas the FPM configuration benefits from it> > so that you can see immediately to which part a specific configuration> > setting belongs.> >> > There are two totally different uses of configuration files here, so> > there is no reason to jump through hoops to make them look a little bit> > the same and introducing lots of complexity at the same time. It's even> > more ridiculous because the original XML configuration format was> > working just fine.
regards,
Derick
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