> -----Original Message----- > From: Geoffrey Young [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, September 17, 2004 1:57 PM > To: Scott Fagg > Cc: Matthew Darwin; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [mp2] how far off feature-freeze is mp2? > > > >>Yes, it is a pre-release version. The point is that it is stable > >>enough to use in an enterprise (fortune 500 company) application. > > > > > > Is stable a reference to crashing or changes in the API ? > I'm using a > > later version, 1.99_16, because the version that shipped with FC2, > > 1.99_12, was missing APIs (something to do with buckets) that are > > referred to on the modperl website and that i was trying to use. > > wrt API stability, recent 1.99_XX releases are very close to > the way the > official 2.0 release will look. those things that will > change (either pre- > or post-2.0) are APIs that the vast majority of people won't > ever need. > > wrt "crashing"-type stability, mp2 is as stable as we can > make it without > people actually using it and finding things that only a real-world > deployment can find. but we have had very few (any?) reports > of random > segfaults or crashes from those who have deployed it, so I > guess we're doing > something right :)
My concern has only ever been with API-stability and the availability of the support modules (e.g. libapreq2). Once they appear stable, i'll start to move my mp1 code to mp2. I don't recall the last time mod_perl was the source of a crash. > > HTH > > --Geoff > > -- Report problems: http://perl.apache.org/bugs/ Mail list info: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/modperl.html List etiquette: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/email-etiquette.html
