Say I want the same code to work under: Win2k/ISS5.0&CGI Win2k/IIS5.0&PerlEX Win2k/Apache1&mod_perl1 Win2k/Apache2&mod_perl2
FreeBSD/Linux/Sun/Apache1&mod_perl1 FreeBSD/Linux/Sun/Apache2&mod_perl2 FreeBSD/Linux/Sun/Apache1,2&CGI
Assume perl 5.6.1 ActiveState on Win2k and perl 5.8.0 on Unix environments.
Assume CGI.pm >= 2.98
I haven't really had a hard time with this except:
CGI.pm ($query = CGI->new())
Spreadsheet::WriteExcel (0.26 or less for Win2k/ISS5.0&PerlEx current is .40 most likely not thread safe)
GD.pm (ActiveState only has GD1.x for 5.6.1 and compile errors for GD2.x on 5.8.0)
XML::Simple (Active State5.6.1 is only at 1.06 missing some critical features from the current ~2.05)
DateTime modules (datetime.perl.org ActiveState 5.6.1 has nothing... I think 5.8.0 might have some)
use lib qw(.......) (ISS automagically adds "." to this. Under unix, this is not the case
First thought, use FindBin, but its not thread safe, so mod_perl2.x fails.
Only anwser I've come up with is to have an "installation" script edit a place holder in the "main" file
Text::Aspell ... egad... One of my co-workers has compiled this for 5.6.1 ActiveState on Win2k/WinXP Pro using MSCV++ 6.0
if anyone is interested since ActiveState has nothing.
Does anyone have any comments/suggestions/ideas on this ?
Despite all the ranting, I must say that all of you have done exceptional jobs to make Apache/mod_perl the finest of them all.
I haven't done any hard benchmarking, but it looks link Apache2/mod_perl2 on Win2k is substantially(2-3x) faster then IIS5.0/PerlEx.
However, "caching" is much more beneficially in IIS5.0/PerlEx then apache1.x/mod_perl1.x (rarely if ever get server by the same child in Apache)
Thanks All!
