Re: Flaky software

1999-11-24 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen
On Thu, 25 Nov 1999, Stas Bekman wrote: [...] > Well, I think Ask has added a welcome page, I've prepared about a year > ago. It should be posted to every new subscriber. Isn't it there? Any of > the new subscribers can confirm that they didn't receive the _stressing_ > info? A clued new subscri

Re: Flaky software

1999-11-24 Thread Stas Bekman
On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, Ajit Deshpande wrote: > On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 05:51:26PM -0500, Vivek Khera wrote: > > > "GLE" == Glen Lee Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > GLE> What is the specific purpose/slant of this list? Is it a developer's > > GLE> list? A general list to help thos

Re: Flaky software

1999-11-24 Thread Ajit Deshpande
On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 05:51:26PM -0500, Vivek Khera wrote: > > "GLE" == Glen Lee Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > GLE> What is the specific purpose/slant of this list? Is it a developer's > GLE> list? A general list to help those running Mod Perl? Are only > GLE> programming geniu

RE: Flaky software

1999-11-23 Thread brian moseley
On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Gary Carroll wrote: > Maybe you should try http://www.microsoft.com i hear there is this great new thing called 'active server pages'. ive been meaning to check that out but i keep having to write mod_perl code for non-production systems. damn those paying customers.

Re: Flaky software

1999-11-23 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "G" == G W Haywood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: G> If you have "never bothered" to find out why `make test' is failing G> then obviously you don't have any "production mod_perl systems". G> In the light of the comments from Mr. Schwartz, it looks like you G> have only development systems tha

Where to start with mod_perl (was Re: Flaky software)

1999-11-23 Thread Jeffrey Baker
Glen Lee Edwards wrote: > > I'm brand new to the list, so I thought I'd better ask a question before > making another post: > > What is the specific purpose/slant of this list? Is it a developer's > list? A general list to help those running Mod Perl? Are only > programming geniuses allowed t

Re: Flaky software

1999-11-23 Thread Vivek Khera
> "GLE" == Glen Lee Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: GLE> What is the specific purpose/slant of this list? Is it a developer's GLE> list? A general list to help those running Mod Perl? Are only GLE> programming geniuses allowed to post, or can the average joe ask dumb GLE> questions? A

Re: Flaky software

1999-11-23 Thread Eric Cholet
On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, G.W. Haywood wrote: [snip snip] > For me, your slapdash approach has polluted the mod_perl resource to > the extent that now I don't trust any of it. The entire exercise is > written off to experience and I am looking for alternatives. Hey, Jeffrey Baker didn't write mod_

Re: Flaky software

1999-11-23 Thread Glen Lee Edwards
I'm brand new to the list, so I thought I'd better ask a question before making another post: What is the specific purpose/slant of this list? Is it a developer's list? A general list to help those running Mod Perl? Are only programming geniuses allowed to post, or can the average joe ask dumb

Re: Flaky software

1999-11-23 Thread Ken Williams
Give me a break, G.W. You think nobody is happy with mod_perl? You think it's okay to take the mis-speakings of a good Perl contributor (JB) out of context and try to use them as some kind of evidence (for what?)? That's mean-spirited and inaccurate, and I don't feel like hearing it. "[sic]"?

Re: Flaky software

1999-11-23 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
"G.W. Haywood" wrote: > Dear Mr. Baker, > > If you have "never bothered" to find out why `make test' is failing > then obviously you don't have any "production mod_perl systems". In > the light of the comments from Mr. Schwartz, it looks like you have > only development systems that haven't gon

Re: Flaky software

1999-11-23 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, G.W. Haywood wrote: > Dear Mr. Baker, > > If you have "never bothered" to find out why `make test' is failing > then obviously you don't have any "production mod_perl systems". In > the light of the comments from Mr. Schwartz, it looks like you have > only development syst

RE: Flaky software

1999-11-23 Thread Gary Carroll
> For me, your slapdash approach has polluted the mod_perl resource to > the extent that now I don't trust any of it. The entire exercise is > written off to experience and I am looking for alternatives. Maybe you should try http://www.microsoft.com g-

Re: Flaky software

1999-11-23 Thread G.W. Haywood
> On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Jeffrey Baker wrote: > > if (defined @foo_in) { # On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: # # defined @bar and defined %bletch are almost never correct, and any # seasoned Perl hacker knows to watch for those as a red flag. > On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, Jeffrey Ba