Re: [WISH] A Perlish way to detect mod_perl major version (= not $ENV{MOD_PERL})

[John Siracusa]

On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 17:39:21, Dominique Quatravaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> For the record I use the following dubious hack as an interim measure:
> 
> sub modperl_major_version {
> ~    use DynaLoader ();
> ~    return 1 if DynaLoader::dl_find_symbol_anywhere("XS_Apache_define");
> ~    return 2 if
> DynaLoader::dl_find_symbol_anywhere("XS_ModPerl__Util_exit");
> ~    return undef;
> }

I have a function with almost exactly the same name, but I'm stripping the
version out of the environment variable.  I'd also like to see a "cleaner"
way to do this.  The DynaLoader method is not particularly reassuring... :)

-John