On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 18:59:02 +0200
lola <lola at yais dot net> wrote:

> to be honest, i like m0n0wall because it uses php! it makes changes to
> m0n0wall or the gui simple and easy. 

	As a relative m0n0wall newbie I was going to add that using PHP
over Ruby or something else might give a new user a "warm fuzzy" feeling
that m0n0wall is a "standard" program rather than an "unknown, scary"
program.  I have heard some good things about Ruby but realistically PHP
has a wider base at this point.  Perl does too, but FWIW many
programmers may prefer PHP over Perl or vice versa.  PHP was designed as
a web language and Perl was designed as a scripting language, so PHP may
still be more natural for a web interface, and Perl or C used for the
core daemon.

	If memory wasn't an issue, Apache and mod_php (and
php_accelerator?) could be used for speed.  But memory is an issue...one
thing the developers will have to decide is how long to support 32-64 MB
memory configurations.  Having the core run in Perl or PHP would require
that runtime to be loaded into memory.  Using compiled C code would
shrink the memory requirement I'd expect.

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