On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 11:11:14AM +0000, Jonathan Peterson wrote: > > I'm rather unimpressed by the complete > absence of seemless backward compatability, but I suppose change is good.
Errr, I'm not. The 1.3 Apache API is badly geb0rken in a couple of places. Fixing that, and doing the correct thing instead is far more important than being backward (compatible)[1], IMO. > *I still think building a working mod_perl is one of the hardest > software install / configuration jobs going. apxs2 helps somewhat, but > it's still insanely hard. On which platform? It varies significantly between Linux, Solaris, Digital and *BSD[2] and can be sensitively dependent on quite surprising things. It does require a bit of thought and should not be plowed into blindly, and is generally harder than it needs to be. Perhaps I should give a rant about all this stuff. Oh, wait.... Ben [1] I've quite often felt the second word of backward compatible was unnecessary. [2] Which are the only platforms I've built it on.
