On Tuesday, 28 February 2012 18:14:20 Vincent Veyron wrote: > I am a tiny one-man company using mod_perl with great success(*) and > pleasure, and your post has me very worried that it could end in a > hurry
So am I and so are many (perhaps most) of the other contributors. What I am trying to say is, if modperl is the basis of your business why don't you start contribute? You'll be in good and friendly company. This is how I got to modperl. In the late 1990ies I did a project involving mp1. That was almost my first encounter with Perl. A few years later that client wanted to switch to httpd 2.0. So, they hired me again. At that time I had a few years of experience in Perl. I also had skimmed through perlxs/guts/api but was far from understanding it. I had tried a few examples but that was all. One of the first things I did for modperl was a fix for APR::Base64.I had noticed that one of encode() or decode() left a superfluous \0 byte at the end of the resulting string. Of course I could switch to MIME::Base64 and forget about APR::Base64. But that would mean to dupliate the code to work with base64 encoding - something I don't like at all. So, I tried to fix the bug and surprisingly succeeded. It wasn't by far as complicated as I had expected. In the end the patch I sent to the mailing list didn't get applied as I had sent it, I think (but maybe this was another patch). Someone more experienced had found a better solution. At that time I had reported to my client that mp2 works. I also had read the docs and was intrigued by "PerlInterpScope handler". I had asked on the users list if it was a good idea to use it and was encouraged by Stas to go ahead. Well, it was disastrous and I ended up hacking modperl_interp.c. I think I have found and fixed a few bugs. And - much more important - I have learned a big deal about httpd, modperl and perl. Also, before that time I seldom reported bugs or wrote to mailing lists. I was too shy - my command of English was embarrassing. Also, it occurred to me that the creators of all of these shining open source programs are not god-like creatures but people like you and me. And if I want these projects to succeed I have to contribute my share. I didn't want to worry you. Quite the contrary, I wanted to encourage people to join. Give it time and modperl will support httpd 2.4. But it requires work to be done. You can help. Sorry for the late reply, I was on vacation. Torsten Förtsch -- Need professional modperl support? Hire me! (http://foertsch.name) Like fantasy? http://kabatinte.net
