Hey mod_perl developers,

I am beginning to work with mod_perl, porting things like
Apache::ASP & the Hello World benchmarks, and am finding
some things that could be improved.

Can we get the old

   %args = $r->args

functionality back, at least in Apache::compat mode?
This is just for basic param parsing I use in some of
the benchmarks.  I could have used Apache::Request->param possibly,
but it seems that does not exist yet under 2.0

Also, can Apache::compat be trigger automatically by
the perl-script directive?  Since the perl-script directive,
as opposed to the new modperl one, seems to have lots
of backwards compatibility hooks, how about just hooking
up Apache::compat to it too?  Otherwise, I think module
authors will have to add it themselves to all the modules
to explicitly maintain compatibility with 2.0.

The effect of this is that modules that are not being actively
maintained will automatically break under 2.0, and there are *so many*
Apache modules out there.  This allows perl-script to pretty
much "just work" like it used to, while still providing an
upgrade path to modperl directive for those that want to use
the new APIs explicitly.

Thanks for all the work so far, it looks like it has shaped
up really well.

Josh
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Josh Chamas, Founder                   phone:925-552-0128
Chamas Enterprises Inc.                http://www.chamas.com
NodeWorks Link Checking                http://www.nodeworks.com


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