[mb-devel] Can musicbrainz support lighttpd to replace apache ?

[Matthias Friedrich]

On Tuesday, 2006-10-03, bowen wrote:
> Why do you design mb_server so coherent to some specific product. You
> just write a little more code, or just use some general function
> without product internal api. It is very hard to migrate and upgrade
> for most of us. Sorry, above is some complaint.

About six years ago, when this implementation has been started, those
APIs were the only ones available. Apart from that, all dependencies are
available as open source products and most of them are pretty common.

> I know mb_server is depends on mod_perl, apache, postgresql tightly.
> Do you plan to cope with this problem?

I don't think so. I wouldn't consider it even if it was my choice. There
are more important things than that and I don't see why mb_server should
be available for more web servers than apache.

Only people who want to help out with development or want to run a
mirror server need to install it. That's a pretty small number indeed.
Others can access MB using the web services, with or without the
provided libraries.

About the DB server: The DB snapshots are Postgres-specific because
that's the fastest way to dump that huge amount of data to disk.
It should be possible to import those snapshots into MySQL with minor
tweaking (just a few format conversions). If you're unable to write
the script for that, then I wonder what you need the data for.

Cheers,
	Matthias