Re: Porting to OS X

2002-06-04 Thread David Wheeler
On 6/4/02 10:43 AM, Noam Solomon [EMAIL PROTECTED] claimed: Can anyone give me a rough idea how much time it would take to move a server serving mod_perl websites from UNIX to OS X? It uses Apache::Session, DBI::Mysql, HTML::Mason, CGI, and Apache::OpenIndex, among others, and uses both

RE: Porting to OS X

2002-06-04 Thread Vuillemot, Ward W
Wheeler's site provides a lot of great information. When I get to my other computer, I can send you some other useful URLs for setting up UNIX apps on the OS X if you want. I found it took about an evening to install all the software. Another evening to get mod_perl apps up and running,

RE: Porting to OS X

2002-06-04 Thread Drew Taylor
This is going OT, but the case insensitivity problem is only for the Mac filesystems. I've that all you need to do is switch the filesystem to ufs (the bsd version) and the problem is solved. Of course, if you can't switch fs types I don't know of a workaround. :-) Drew At 10:54 AM 6/4/02

Re: Porting to OS X

2002-06-04 Thread David Wheeler
On 6/4/02 10:54 AM, Vuillemot, Ward W [EMAIL PROTECTED] claimed: I think it is relatively an easy move, IMHO. Just beaware that the Mac OS filesystem is NOT case-sensitive. Which can cause problems with certain applications. . .and we hope (Apple, you listening?) that they will fix this

Re: Porting to OS X [OT] OS X

2002-06-04 Thread David Jacobs
I think it is relatively an easy move, IMHO. Just beaware that the Mac OS filesystem is NOT case-sensitive. Which can cause problems with certain applications. . .and we hope (Apple, you listening?) that they will fix this gross over-sight. I agree it's a problem, and it's caused me

RE: Porting to OS X

2002-06-04 Thread Michael Robinton
From: Noam Solomon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Porting to OS X Date sent:Tue, 4 Jun 2002 13:43:11 -0400 [ Double-click this line for list subscription options ] Can anyone give me a rough idea how much time it would take to move a

RE: Porting to OS X

2002-06-04 Thread Drew Taylor
At 11:27 AM 6/4/02 -0700, Michael Robinton wrote: I'd be very interested in how this progresses. I recently helped a collegue to get a cgi program running under apache using standard perl on OSX -- I found that the perl distribution that comes with OSX is the original 5.6 rather than more up to

Re: Porting to OS X

2002-06-04 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
David == David Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think it is relatively an easy move, IMHO. Just beaware that the Mac OS filesystem is NOT case-sensitive. Which can cause problems with certain applications. . .and we hope (Apple, you listening?) that they will fix this gross over-sight.

eating memory ... // RE: Porting to OS X

2002-06-04 Thread Alvar Freude
Hi, -- Michael Robinton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: application, which runs on an aging 486 with 64 megs in our shop and uses about 4 megs including mod_perl enhanced apache, took 40 megs on OSX and was very slow. This was on a G4 with 500 megs of memory. probably it's the same as on FreeBSD:

Re: eating memory ... // RE: Porting to OS X

2002-06-04 Thread Doug MacEachern
On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Alvar Freude wrote: probably it's the same as on FreeBSD: if you use a DSO mod_perl, for each restart (apachectl graceful or apachectl restart) it eats all the memory your mod_perl modules use. Try to build it statically; at least on FreeBSD it helps, and OSX is FreeBSD