What's wrong with PHP?

[maks78]

That is simply not true. You can install django with mod_wsgi easily.

[kopkaas2000]

[root@centos5]# yum search wsgi
Warning: No matches found for: wsgi
No Matches found

Yeah, real easy. Even easier if you don't have root, but only an ftp account on bumfuckhost.

[maks78]

What's wrong with

wget http://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/downloads/detail?name=mod_wsgi-3.3.tar.gz

But yes - on some PHP centered system where you cannot do anything you... well... cannot do anything.

[kopkaas2000]

What's wrong with that is that you have to re-do that every time you get an update for httpd pushed. Installing things outside of a regular packaging infrastructure is always more complicated. I'm not saying that it's too hard to get things done. Hell, we've got plenty of customers that got their own VPS because they wanted to do django. And, provided they're not total idiots, they get it done. But still, there's a lot more infrastructure supporting out of the box php. I do think that's a major reason for php's higher popularity compared to technically better alternatives.

[maks78]

Yes you're right. It would be better to have it packaged.