so I see no harm in letting the masses get their feet wet with 2.0 now. we have lots of people installing it on lots of different platforms, so getting past the initial installation hurdle shouldn't be any more difficult than with 1.0. after that, the main API hasn't changed much, so the documentation for 1.0 is still farily relevant (once you get past loading all those classes).
That's actually the reason I didn't recommend starting with mp2 to this guy: the documentation. It's easy for me to look at things and say "oh, this corresponds to the 1.0 docs here", but to a newbie that will sound like insanity. There's a lot more documented than there used to be, and I am in no position to criticize anyone else's efforts, having done very little to contribute to the 2.0 docs at this point, but this is the thing that holds me back from recommending it to newbies. Well, that and concerns about the safety of Perl threads at this point, but that's easy to avoid by using pre-fork.
- Perrin
