Jeff wrote: > Debian provide a tested, stable environment, usually with added > security factor. We rolled our own once to solve the libc6 2.7 memory > bugs that hit Perl, to be bitten by intermittent and obscure > interaction bugs (MySQL/Perl mid-query dropping db connections etc). > We persevered for two months but went back to stable in the end.
Thank you for your reply. :-) That's exactly the kind of horror story that makes me very leery of compiling from source. Doing it "right" requires a level of expertise and ongoing focus that I simply don't have and can't afford to gain or maintain. > www.backports.org will be your friend soon. Updated packages compiled > using the stable compiler/libraries. Lots of folks are waiting for a > working Debian stable Apache2/ModPerl2 combo. The last I heard was > end of September.... I was aware of backports.org, but haven't checked there lately. A current Apache2/ current ModPerl2 package for Debian 3.1 stable would be a dream come true! :-) David
