Le 26/01/2019 à 00:00, André Warnier (tomcat) a écrit :
On 25.01.2019 21:15, Paul B. Henson wrote:
On 1/25/2019 11:00 AM, Michael A. Capone wrote:
I have to add my voice to the growing chorus here.
Me too. Frequently when the topic of mod_perl going stale comes up
somebody jumps in with
"That's old stuff, you should be using PSGI/Plack". Those people
simply don't understand
the overall utility of mod_perl beyond simply running a webapp
. I have
authentication and authorization handlers written in mod_perl, and
the ability to directly
access the Apache API allows things that PSGI simply cannot do.
I think that is a reasonable bet to say that by the mere fact of being
subscribed to this list, we all express our interest in, and love of
perl and mod_perl in particular.
(I cannot complain, as I was the first one to hijack John's question
in that sense).
But really, the underlying concern here seems to find out a bit about
the future support and evolution of mod_perl, in parallel to the
evolution of Apache httpd and the HTTP protocol(s).
So if a mod_perl committer would happen to read this, it would be nice
to get some information or pointers.
There is a list here, so I suppose there are some such people :
http://people.apache.org/phonebook.html?pmc=perl
Hi,
You can have a look at the following ASF monthly report to have some
more ideas on the activity of the project:
http://www.apache.org/foundation/records/minutes/2018/board_minutes_2018_11_21.txt
There has already been a more or less simitar discussion this summer
(http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/perl-modperl/201806.mbox/thread
(continued in July and August))
In short: some are still interested in the development and/or
maintenance of mod_perl but there are some limitation:
- lack of http2 support because http2 does not work with prefork
- lack of mpm other than prefork support (according to the thread)
CJ
As this is an Apache Project, I would guess that starting from the
main site apache.org, there must also be a way to find out about any
activity in that project (it's named sometimes "perl", sometimes
"mod_perl" there, but if you follow the project link, you end up on
the same on-line documentation page that we all know and love, but
which doesn't seem to lead to any further data on what's happening
currently).
There is also a "perl-dev" mailing list, but browsing it backward from
today doesn't seem to show much activity since January 2017 (Hi,
Rainer and Steve :-)
The good side about this of course, is that mod_perl would appear to
be a very stable and reliable module, since there is also not much
evidence of bugs, patches etc.
The less good side is that it appears indeed *very* stable.
Unless we're all on the wrong track, and there is a hidden project
somewhere for a mod_perl 3 based on perl 6..
