Hi Stas,
I'm not interested in modifying CGI.pm to use MP2 until I start using MP2
myself. This isn't likely in the near future, since I'm very happy indeed
with MP1/Apache1.
Lincoln
On Friday 07 March 2003 03:58 am, Stas Bekman wrote:
> Stas Bekman wrote:
> > Apache::compat is useful during the mp1 code porting. Though remember
> > that it's implemented in pure Perl. In certain cases it overrides mp2
> > methods, because their API is very different and doesn't map 1:1 to mp1.
> > So if anything, not under my control, loads Apache::compat my code is
> > forced to use the potentially slower method. Which is quite bad.
> >
> > Some users may choose to keep using Apache::compat in production and it
> > may perform just fine. Other users will choose not to use that module.
> > It should be users' choice.
> >
> > Therefore CPAN modules should *not* preload Apache::compat, but use the
> > mp2 API or copy the relevant parts from Apache::compat.
> >
> > Of course one can add an ugly workaround in startup.pl:
> >
> > $INC{'Apache/compat.pm'} = __FILE__;
> >
> > but I'd rather not have to remember doing that. I'll update the manpage
> > to have this warning.
> >
> > I haven't scanned the CPAN modules yet, but I've noticed that CGI.pm's
> > latest version does:
> >
> > require mod_perl;
> > if ($mod_perl::VERSION >= 1.99) {
> > eval "require Apache::compat";
> > } else {
> > eval "require Apache";
> > }
> >
> > Lincoln, any chance we can kill that preloading? If you need help with
> > porting the API please let us know.
>
> Here is a hopefully useful discussion and examples on how to get rid of
> Apache::compat:
> http://perl.apache.org/docs/2.0/devel/porting/porting.html#Handling_Missing
>_and_Modified_mod_perl_1_0_APIs
>
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