Re: What happened with Apache2::Reload in mod_perl-2.0.4?

[Philippe M. Chiasson]

Fred Moyer wrote:

Geoffrey Young wrote:

Fred Moyer wrote:

Niels van Dijke wrote:

Hi mod_perl maintainers,

Thank you for releasing mod_perl 2.0.4.

I was wondering what happened to Apache2::Reload? Was it missed in
packaging for the upload to CPAN? If so then there may be other files
missing too.

See the Changelog:

Apache2::Reload has been moved to an externally maintained
CPAN distribution

http://search.cpan.org/dist/Apache-Reload-0.10/

hmm...

I can't remember if I knew this or not, but we probably ought to treat this like Apache-Test: keep bundling it with releases _and_ maintain something separate on CPAN.

Don't worry, I won't forget about it :)

That's on the radar for 2.0.5, along with Apache::SizeLimit, to bundle using svn:external. Phillip Gollucci brought this up about a month ago or so, and I started to move on it but Gozer brought up a number of things that had to be done to make this happen and the works with 5.10 release was pressing at that point.

so I guess this means a mp2 release should (going forward) include _and_ imply a new release of

  o mp2
  o Apache-Test
  o Apache-Reload

     o Apache-SizeLimit

And as the latest Release Manager, I must say that having to release 3
extra CPAN modules along with each mp2 releases is going to be a PITA.

http://svn.apache.org/[...]/Apache-Test/tags/1.31

THat way, 2 things happen. First, we can always release mod_perl, without
having to worry about these external packages. We know what we are bundling
is exactly the same stuff that is _already_ on CPAN, great. Second, mod_perl
itself is protected from spurious failures caused by changes in any of these
modules before they are released.

The only negative is that if a change is made to say Apache-Test to fix a
problem mod_perl needs/wants, it complicates things a little. I make the
fix in A-T, making sure it fixes mod_perl's problem. If sure of that,
I proceed to release A-T. Once released, I can now test mod_perl against
this new A-T by locally changing the tag the svn:external is pointing to,
and if it solves to problem and doesn't create new ones, checkin the new
external definition.

I've dealt with 3rd packages in this way plenty, and it works.

Anyhting terribly obvious I am missing here ?

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