Re: Unicorn/Rainbows!/Zbatery "support" in rack.git...

[Aaron Patterson <aaron@tenderlovemaking.com>]

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On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 08:36:02AM +0000, Eric Wong wrote:
> Hello, I'm the main support/helpdesk guy and project leader for
> Unicorn/Rainbows!/Zbatery servers.   I believe
> dff8e34f43c2897062d5b252406398ced2d360a8 to add handlers for these
> servers is a bad change for everyone.
> 
> All three servers support Rack natively and were designed around the
> Rack spec.  However the (sometimes minor) differences in using "rackup"
> vs the shipped commands will cause confusion among both users and
> developers trying to support them.
> 
> All three servers also rely on Unix signals for management, so their
> names in the process table is also an important part of the user
> experience.
> 
> Unlike typical web servers, Unicorn should never be directly exposed to
> slow clients, but a user just trying it with "rackup" would never be
> informed of that (especially since other servers like
> Mongrel/Thin/WEBrick don't have this limitation).
> 
> Rainbows! and Zbatery are also completely worthless without a
> configuration file, but "rackup" has no way of conveying that to the
> user.  The user would just be left with an even worse version
> of Unicorn.
> 
> 
> I'm also under the impression that nobody uses Rainbows! or Zbatery,
> yet, so I'd rather users' first impressions of those projects be
> through the officially-supported and documented commands.
> 
> Thanks for reading, I hope you agree and revert the change.

Hi Eric,

I've reverted the commit.  Thanks for letting us know.

-- 
Aaron Patterson
http://tenderlovemaking.com/

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