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

[bowen]

Hi
>
> 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 agree. But we should look forward to make our project be more
extensible and migrative. Just like apache has sense for their fat and
too much injection to language(php, perl, ruby ..)

>
> 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.
>

I just install to learn something and play for fun. If you think about
mb_server as an internal use tool, and only supply for some special
people, it is ok.  But if you
want your project been widely used and take more use of open source
power, you should think aout that it is very hard to install an
mb_server.

> 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.
>

As a developer, I am always interested in project design,
architecture, function implmentation and db schema(not data). I like
this project, so I setup it and learn to use it.

Sorry for my poor english expression. I just express some of my
opinion. You guy are really doing an excellent job.

Thanks you. I like you.