Who in the world would want to abandon mod_perl? What is this world coming to?
-Robert > On Jul 30, 2018, at 5:44 PM, André Warnier (tomcat) <a...@ice-sa.com> wrote: > > On 30.07.2018 03:51, Paul B. Henson wrote: >> On Sun, Jul 29, 2018 at 04:18:54PM -0400, Paul Silevitch wrote: >>> Like Dr. James Smith, I'm hooking into multiple handlers and using filters. >> >> Yep, me too; Plack is really not a feature equivilent replacement for >> mod_perl :(. >> > +1. > Plack and other frameworks (TT2, Moose, Catalyst, etc.) cover the web > application side, at different levels and in different ways. > But there is (to my knowledge) no equivalent for mod_perl's ability to > interact deeply with the Apache internal Request processing logic. > In that respect, comparing mod_perl to Plack etc is like comparing apples to > pears : not very relevant. > Considering that, for better or worse, Perl as a programming language does > not seem to be really attractive to the current generation of software > developers anymore, I would not really mind if some tool equivalent to > mod_perl was developed using whichever other scripting language is currently > more in fashion (javascript ? python ? ..), but it really seems a pity to > "slowly abandon" mod_perl without providing some tool of equivalent power in > terms of deep interaction with Apache httpd. > > >
