> I think a great first-place to start for advocacy is to work with the > various linux/bsd/*nix distributions out there to make sure that they > have a modern, compatible version of mod_perl 2. As a user, I don't > want to maintain my own perl/mod_perl build tree - I want my distro to > do the right thing. Perhaps a first-step in the advocacy movement is > to maintain a "distro compatibility list" for mod_perl 2 on > perl.apache.org, so that it's not such a black-art in determining > whether mod_perl/Apache::* packages are up-to-date or whether there are > timebombs waiting to ambush new users.
Sounds like a good idea, and if we point people in the right direction to get updated versions/backports for their distro that might help with the rest. As a Debian user I'd like to move to mod_perl2 proper, however I don't want to have to compile it for myself. So I've been taking the option of using the version in Sarge, and figuring our where I differ from the docs. I've been checking apt-get.org regularly to see if anybody had setup a repository, and backports. I hadn't been checking the incoming folder on backports, so didn't realise that somebody had done the pacakge till it was mentioned on here recently. Carl
