[ComputerGuru]

Pretty much every major nginx deployment I’m familiar with has been from source. Dynamic modules aren’t really that new but certainly post-date a lot of deployments. But also bigger deployments tend to want full control of which in-tree modules are compiled into nginx, which dependencies they pull in (for security and deployment reasons), and how quickly patches and security releases can be updated.

It also has a fairly simple from-source deployment with a fairly solid build script.

[chrsig]

"new" is subjective -- I'll catch up with the times eventually, I'm sure :)

but yeah, I've had to write said script due to needing to compile in proprietary modules.

It's just a bit of CI glue, pretty straightforward and quick build -- thanking to it being written in C rather than C++.