Ged Haywood wrote: > Hi there, > > On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Keith G. Murphy wrote: > > >>do you mean that the problems with the loadable module overall are >>so well-known that no one in his right mind should ever use it? > > > It's not as bad as that. Significant improvements have been made in > the reliability of mod_perl as DSO and nowadays there is much less > discussion about it on this list.
Are you sure it's not because 'most everyone has silently given up on it? > There are still one or two dusty > corners but in general thesedays I'd say try it. I had not expected Debian stable to be one of the dusty corners. But I did find, upon investigating the bug reports, that there were *very* old reports about memory leaks, etc., with libapache-mod-perl. My own bug report is now 47 days old, without apparent followup. > If it doesn't seem > to give you problems then stay with it. > > If at first you don't succeed, try again. Then give up. Actually, that is what I have done already, several months ago. Seeing several reports of memory leak problems in the list made me think: "Hmmm, wonder if someone else has seen this?"
