Hello there, On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Robert Lee wrote:
> I am new to Apache/mod_perl and everything else. We're all still learning... > I bought a fairly good book on Apache/mysql/mod_perl. There are others, see the mod_perl web site: http://perl.apache.org > Unfortunately, it is based on the Apache 1 server and mod_perl1. That's not too bad, there are lots of similarities. > Q1: Is there a similar module to Apache::Request? Depends what you want to do, but not really. Care to try porting it? > Q2: Any real benefits to working on the latest and greatest? Or > should I go to the older versions? Depends what you want to do... :) If you are interested in learning about it and you don't have a project that you have to put on a live Webserver in a couple of months' time, I'd say stay with mp2 and watch it evolve. Maybe get involved in some of the development. I wouldn't consider mp2 for production use yet because of that evolution process if for no other reason, but if you don't have the commercial pressures then it doesn't matter so much and there's no point your spending a lot of time learning about something if it's going to be more-or-less history by the time you need to use it seriously. > I realize that for Q2, I may want to simply go with the more "stable" > versions of the Apache server and mod_perl as I am just learning For your education it's probably worth your while learning how to get the latest CVS versions, at least of mod_perl. The latest versions of Apache2 and mod_perl2 will be quite stable enough for you to use to learn about them. Now your browsers on the other hand... 73, Ged.
