Re: Environnement stability and maturity
In local.modperl you write: What is the "official" home of 5.6.1rev2? I can't seem to locate it on CPAN anywhere. The p5p summary on http://www.perl.com/ seems to be under the impression that 5.6.1 isn't going to be out for a while. I remember seeing a pointer to one of the very early patches, but I can't seem to find it again. Thanks in advance-- Probably because you looked for 5.6.1rev2. The name is perl-5.6.1-TRIAL2. Look for it at $CPAN/authors/id/G/GS/GSAR/perl-5.6.1-TRIAL2.tar.gz . Sarathy is on it, and I expect the final 5.6.1 Real Soon Now. The TRIAL2 had a couple of problems, and there will probably a TRIAL3. (My personal guess.) -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] |http://free.prohosting.com/~lupe | | "Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time." | | Hogfather | | Terry Pratchett|
Environnement stability and maturity
Hello. I'm about to give the kick-off of a new project and we want to start with current and to-date version of software. Will it be ok for production use to go with all-fresh version of the mod_perl environnement : apache 1.3.17, mod_perl 1.25, perl 5.6 ? I'm going with the latest version of Solaris (euh... what is it? I am the programmer on that, not the sysadmins... ;o) I'm on the impression from my reading of the list that there was some problems with perl 5.6 : am I wrong? If not, what kind of problem should I expect? Thanks for any advise or experience. Benoit Caron Analyste-Programmeur Netgraphe - Webfin.com - Le Web Financier [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - "The number of Unix installations has grown to 10, with more expected." -- The Unix Programmer's Manual, 2nd edition, June '72
Re: Environnement stability and maturity
On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Benoit Caron wrote: Hello. I'm about to give the kick-off of a new project and we want to start with current and to-date version of software. Will it be ok for production use to go with all-fresh version of the mod_perl environnement : apache 1.3.17, mod_perl 1.25, perl 5.6 ? I'm going with the latest version of Solaris (euh... what is it? I am the programmer on that, not the sysadmins... ;o) I'm on the impression from my reading of the list that there was some problems with perl 5.6 : am I wrong? If not, what kind of problem should I expect? There are some nasty bugs in 5.6 which tend to surface when you stretch perl a bit. One that AxKit brings rise to is the "Bizarre copy of ARRAY in aassign" (sic) bug. There are patches available to fix this though. I'm still waiting for 5.6.1 before upgrading. Others have bitten the bullet and been just fine with 5.6.0. -- Matt/ /||** Director and CTO ** //||** AxKit.com Ltd ** ** XML Application Serving ** // ||** http://axkit.org ** ** XSLT, XPathScript, XSP ** // \\| // ** Personal Web Site: http://sergeant.org/ ** \\// //\\ // \\
Re: Environnement stability and maturity
At 11:04 05/02/2001 -0500, Benoit Caron wrote: I'm on the impression from my reading of the list that there was some problems with perl 5.6 : am I wrong? If not, what kind of problem should I expect? I've been quite happy with 5.6 in production for quite some time. I used the source provided by activestate because it includes a number of patches but now that 5.6.1rev2 is out it might be better. There are probably bugs, but I bumped into none (except perhaps one weird behaviour of the new warnings pragma that eventually went away and which I could never track down, perhaps it was me). Apache 1.3.14 and mod_perl 1.24_01 seem to be the usual near perfectly stable. -- robin b. "Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it." -- R. Feynman
Re: Environnement stability and maturity
At 16:10 05/02/2001 +, Matt Sergeant wrote: There are some nasty bugs in 5.6 which tend to surface when you stretch perl a bit. One that AxKit brings rise to is the "Bizarre copy of ARRAY in aassign" (sic) bug. There are patches available to fix this though. Yup, that was a nasty one, and it seems to surface pretty much everywhere (a pity the test suite didn't catch it). The AS source includes the patches for it and I never saw it come up again. -- robin b. "Many people would sooner die than think. In fact, they do." - Bertrand Russell
Re: Environnement stability and maturity
Hello, RBI've been quite happy with 5.6 in production for quite some time. I used RBthe source provided by activestate because it includes a number of RBpatches but now that 5.6.1rev2 is out it might be better. What is the "official" home of 5.6.1rev2? I can't seem to locate it on CPAN anywhere. The p5p summary on http://www.perl.com/ seems to be under the impression that 5.6.1 isn't going to be out for a while. I remember seeing a pointer to one of the very early patches, but I can't seem to find it again. Thanks in advance-- Humbly, Andrew -- Andrew Ho http://www.tellme.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice 650-930-9062 Tellme Networks, Inc. 1-800-555-TELLFax 650-930-9101 --
