Re: survey

[Christopher H. Laco]

Frank Wiles wrote:

On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 13:49:52 +0300
"Octavian Rasnita" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

What do you think, why the number of hosts which use mod_perl is
decreasing continuously as the following survey shows?

http://perl.apache.org/outstanding/stats/netcraft.html

  We had a discussion about this long ago and I think it is partly

  1) OS distributions that don't have mod_perl ( and other modules )

  2) More and more sites moving to having light front-end Apache's
     that don't have mod_perl, but reverse proxy to backends that

  I do think mod_perl may be, in general, slipping in "market share",
  but I don't think it is as drastic as the netcraft numbers would

  We tried last year to get a mod_perl advocacy movement going, but

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   Frank Wiles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
   http://www.wiles.org
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due to two things: listed in the server headers. do. lead us to believe. not to many people were interested in helping with it.

-=Chris

Part of it may also be that I still see people and posts surprised that "mod_perl 2 is finished?".

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