On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 14:05, Stas Bekman wrote:
> Ged Haywood wrote:
> > 
> > I see your experience with the -er- people at P5P was similar to mine.
> 
> That's very untrue, guys. p5p cares a lot for mod_perl and helps a lot to fix 
> things so that mod_perl will be happy. Not once a major release was delayed 
> because of problems with mod_perl. I wish httpd-dev cared about mod_perl just 
> a tiny fraction of what p5p does.

There is a general attitude to posters on that list, we all know it.  I
don't think anyone meant to say they didn't care about mp but rather
that owning up to problems in perl itself is often low on the priority
list.  Eg, broken select().

> The issue with ithreads support/maintenance is different: At the moment the 
> ithreads package has no maintainer, so any fixes that you see at all are 
> spotty. Arthur Bergman has left to work on Ponie (perl5 on parrot 
> http://www.poniecode.org/) and noone has stepped up to replace him.

No one mentioned this during my posts.

> So if someone feels like picking up an important sub-project, by all means do 
> so. It requires understanding of threads, XS and Perl guts.

Well, that would be the problem...  XS + Perl Guts.  Talk about arcane.

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Richard F. Rebel
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