Re: *nix distro compatibility (was Re: survey)

2005-09-16 Thread Damyan Ivanov
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jeff wrote: >> That's not entirely true. Debian Sarge (stable) and Ubuntu Hoary both >> include packages for Apache 1.3.33 and Apache2 (2.0.54?). Sarge has a >> mod_perl2 package but it's based on a late 2.0RC, though it is >> post-rename, IIRC. >

Re: *nix distro compatibility (was Re: survey)

2005-09-16 Thread Jeff
That's not entirely true. Debian Sarge (stable) and Ubuntu Hoary both include packages for Apache 1.3.33 and Apache2 (2.0.54?). Sarge has a mod_perl2 package but it's based on a late 2.0RC, though it is post-rename, IIRC. Actually, the Debian Stable aka Sarge has 1.999.21-1 which is PRE

RE: *nix distro compatibility (was Re: survey)

2005-09-15 Thread Perrin Harkins
On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 18:07 -0700, David Christensen wrote: > and tentatively plan to use the Debian 3.1 stable apache-perl package (Apache > 1.33 and mod_perl 1.29). That sounds like a good plan. There may still be issues with their apache compile, but it's definitely better than using a pre-rel

Re: *nix distro compatibility (was Re: survey)

2005-09-15 Thread Jens Gassmann
Hi, I don't think this changes your situation any. CGI is not really fast enough to use, so you still need mod_perl or FastCGI. Because the current crop of linux distros came out before mod_perl 2 but couldn't use mod_perl 1 (since they are using apache 2), they have poor mod_perl support in t

RE: *nix distro compatibility (was Re: survey)

2005-09-14 Thread Dave Rolsky
On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Perrin Harkins wrote: enough to use, so you still need mod_perl or FastCGI. Because the current crop of linux distros came out before mod_perl 2 but couldn't use mod_perl 1 (since they are using apache 2), they have poor mod_perl That's not entirely true. Debian Sarge (s

RE: *nix distro compatibility (was Re: survey)

2005-09-14 Thread David Christensen
Perrin Harkins wrote: > I don't think this changes your situation any. CGI is not really > fast enough to use, so you still need mod_perl or FastCGI. Because > the current crop of linux distros came out before mod_perl 2 but > couldn't use mod_perl 1 (since they are using apache 2), they have > p

Re: *nix distro compatibility (was Re: survey)

2005-09-14 Thread Frank Wiles
On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 09:51:35 -0700 "Justin Luster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I use Rackspace for my Unix hosting and support. They install Red Hat > Enterprise Linux 3 and 4 that both have beta versions of Mod_Perl > installed (ModPerl 1.99_16). Are these not recommended for use on a > produc

Re: *nix distro compatibility (was Re: survey)

2005-09-14 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
Justin Luster wrote: I use Rackspace for my Unix hosting and support. They install Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4 that both have beta versions of Mod_Perl installed (ModPerl 1.99_16). Are these not recommended for use on a production server? We do not recommand anything less then 1.9922 aka

RE: *nix distro compatibility (was Re: survey)

2005-09-14 Thread Justin Luster
] Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 9:46 AM To: David Christensen Cc: modperl@perl.apache.org Subject: RE: *nix distro compatibility (was Re: survey) On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 22:50 -0700, David Christensen wrote: > If I understand it correctly, Catalyst can run under Perl/CGI, Apache/ mod_p

RE: *nix distro compatibility (was Re: survey)

2005-09-14 Thread Perrin Harkins
On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 22:50 -0700, David Christensen wrote: > If I understand it correctly, Catalyst can run under Perl/CGI, Apache/ > mod_perl > CGI emulation layers (Apache::Registry, FastCGI?, others?), Apache/ mod_perl, > Apache2/ mod_perl2 CGI emulation layers (?), and Apache2/ mod_perl2. It

RE: *nix distro compatibility (was Re: survey)

2005-09-13 Thread David Christensen
Perrin Harkins wrote:>? > If you want to sell it, and don't want to spend all your time > debugging vendor oddities, I suggest you target popular versions of > RHEL and Fedora Core and build your own RPMs for perl, mod_perl, > apache, and your application. > People with ISPs where they can't instal

RE: *nix distro compatibility (was Re: survey)

2005-09-13 Thread David Christensen
Jeff wrote: > Debian provide a tested, stable environment, usually with added > security factor. We rolled our own once to solve the libc6 2.7 memory > bugs that hit Perl, to be bitten by intermittent and obscure > interaction bugs (MySQL/Perl mid-query dropping db connections etc). > We persevered

RE: *nix distro compatibility (was Re: survey)

2005-09-13 Thread Perrin Harkins
On Sun, 2005-09-11 at 15:22 -0700, David Christensen wrote: > My goal is to be able to write Apache2/ mod_perl2/ MySQL applications and then > sell and/or give them away with the instructions "it works under *nix > distribution X version Y.Z with packages A, B, C installed". If you want to sell it

Re: *nix distro compatibility (was Re: survey)

2005-09-13 Thread Perrin Harkins
On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 07:12 +0100, Jeff wrote: > Debian provide a tested, stable environment, usually with added security > factor. We rolled our own once to solve the libc6 2.7 memory bugs that > hit Perl, to be bitten by intermittent and obscure interaction bugs > (MySQL/Perl mid-query dropping d

Re: *nix distro compatibility (was Re: survey)

2005-09-12 Thread Jeff
Perrin Harkins wrote: I hear you, but I think anyone who is building a serious web app is better off compiling the important parts (apache, perl, mod_perl) themselves. The options that the packagers choose are intended to meet the needs of the largest cross-section of users, not to work well for

FW: *nix distro compatibility (was Re: survey)

2005-09-11 Thread David Christensen
I wrote: >> Package: libapache2-mod-perl2 >> Versions: >> 1.999.21-1(/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.us.debian.org_debian_dists_stable_ >> main_binary-i386_Packages)(/var/lib/dpkg/status) Philip M. Gollucci wrote: > EW! > I'd recompile and update... using the unsupported API is going to drive y

Re: *nix distro compatibility (was Re: survey)

2005-09-11 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache showpkg libapache2-mod-perl2 | head -n 3 Package: libapache2-mod-perl2 Versions: 1.999.21-1(/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.us.debian.org_debian_dists_stable_ main_binary-i386_Packages)(/var/lib/dpkg/status) EW! I'd recompile and update... using the unsupport

RE: *nix distro compatibility (was Re: survey)

2005-09-11 Thread David Christensen
Philip M. Gollucci wrote: > What version of mp2 comes with Sarge packages ? > 1.9922 or higher I hope. Thanks for your reply. :-) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache showpkg libapache2-mod-perl2 | head -n 3 Package: libapache2-mod-perl2 Versions: 1.999.21-1(/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.us.d

RE: *nix distro compatibility (was Re: survey)

2005-09-11 Thread David Christensen
Perrin Harkins wrote: > I hear you, but I think anyone who is building a serious web app is > better off compiling the important parts (apache, perl, mod_perl) > themselves. The options that the packagers choose are intended to > meet the needs of the largest cross-section of users, not to work >

Re: *nix distro compatibility (was Re: survey)

2005-09-11 Thread Perrin Harkins
David Christensen said: > Also, I prefer using "binary" packages for a given *nix > distribution > -- it's not my goal to develop Apache2 and/or mod_perl2, I want to *use* > them to > build web applications. I hear you, but I think anyone who is building a serious web app is better off compiling t

Re: *nix distro compatibility (was Re: survey)

2005-09-10 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
David Christensen wrote: Carl Johnstone wrote: option of using the version in Sarge, and figuring our where I differ What version of mp2 comes with Sarge packages ? 1.9922 or higher I hope. When I try to port my Eagle book modules to mod_perl2, I trip over the very first step: [EMAIL PRO

Re: *nix distro compatibility (was Re: survey)

2005-09-10 Thread David Christensen
Carl Johnstone wrote: > Sounds like a good idea, and if we point people in the right > direction to get updated versions/backports for their distro that > might help with the rest. > As a Debian user I'd like to move to mod_perl2 proper, however I > don't want to have to compile it for myself. So I

Re: *nix distro compatibility (was Re: survey)

2005-09-01 Thread Philippe M. Chiasson
Anton van Straaten wrote: > Carl Johnstone wrote: > >>> I think a great first-place to start for advocacy is to work with the >>> various linux/bsd/*nix distributions out there to make sure that they >>> have a modern, compatible version of mod_perl 2. As a user, I don't >>> want to maintain my o

Re: *nix distro compatibility (was Re: survey)

2005-09-01 Thread Stef1
Philip M. Gollucci wrote: Anton van Straaten wrote: Carl Johnstone wrote: I think a great first-place to start for advocacy is to work with the various linux/bsd/*nix distributions out there to make sure that they have a modern, compatible version of mod_perl 2. As a user, I don't want to

Re: *nix distro compatibility (was Re: survey)

2005-09-01 Thread Malcolm J Harwood
On Thursday 01 September 2005 04:26 pm, Philip M. Gollucci wrote: > If people want to start emailing in what has what, I'll at least maintain > the list until we figure out how best to use it and where to put it. Mandrake/Mandriva 2005LE (the last release) has perl 5.8.6, httpd 2.0.54, mod_perl

Re: *nix distro compatibility (was Re: survey)

2005-09-01 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
Anton van Straaten wrote: Carl Johnstone wrote: I think a great first-place to start for advocacy is to work with the various linux/bsd/*nix distributions out there to make sure that they have a modern, compatible version of mod_perl 2. As a user, I don't want to maintain my own perl/mod_perl

Re: *nix distro compatibility (was Re: survey)

2005-09-01 Thread Anton van Straaten
Carl Johnstone wrote: I think a great first-place to start for advocacy is to work with the various linux/bsd/*nix distributions out there to make sure that they have a modern, compatible version of mod_perl 2. As a user, I don't want to maintain my own perl/mod_perl build tree - I want my distr

Re: *nix distro compatibility (was Re: survey)

2005-08-30 Thread Carl Johnstone
> I think a great first-place to start for advocacy is to work with the > various linux/bsd/*nix distributions out there to make sure that they > have a modern, compatible version of mod_perl 2. As a user, I don't > want to maintain my own perl/mod_perl build tree - I want my distro to > do the ri

Re: survey

2005-08-30 Thread Randy Kobes
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Octavian Rasnita wrote: Some advocacy ideas: I think that there are a few groups we should target: - The programmers/net admins that are already using mod_perl, but older versions (Macromedia is using Apache 1.3 and mod_perl 1) - the programmers that already know perl but t

Re: survey

2005-08-29 Thread Xan Charbonnet
It's in backports.org's incoming directory, as of the 16th. Let's hope they push that out soon (I don't think they've released any backports for Sarge yet). They've also got an updated libapreq2. http://www.backports.org/incoming/ On Sunday 28 August 2005 06:48 am, Jeff wrote: > >> It is no

Re: survey

2005-08-28 Thread Alexander Charbonnet
It's in backports.org's incoming directory, as of the 16th. Let's hope they push that out soon (I don't think they've released any backports for Sarge yet). They've also got an updated libapreq2. http://www.backports.org/incoming/ On Sunday 28 August 2005 06:48 am, Jeff wrote: > >> It is not

Re: survey

2005-08-28 Thread Jeff
It is not even available on Testing and Unstable :( Sure it is. Unstable has 2.0.1. You're right - don't know how I missed that! since May! Unfortunately I am not in a position to upgrade our servers to unstable, and it has i386 dependencies on libc6 >= 2.3.5-1, perl >= 5.8.7 etc etc etc ad

Re: survey

2005-08-27 Thread Dave Rolsky
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Jeff wrote: It is not even available on Testing and Unstable :( Sure it is. Unstable has 2.0.1. -dave /*=== VegGuide.Orgwww.BookIRead.com Your guide to all that's veg. My book blog ==

Re: survey

2005-08-27 Thread John ORourke
Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Adam> The people that are actually using mod_perl to any real degree Adam> probably don't have it in their servers headers (as you said Adam> before Perrin). Harmful, in that when a PHB reads "Perl is dead, PHP roxors!" as stated by otherwise knowlegable sources, we

Re: survey

2005-08-27 Thread Jeff
RHEL/Centos 4 are still sitting on 1.99_16, which probably isn't helping matters. Debian stable: Package libapache2-mod-perl2 1.999.21-1 Which is a version BEFORE the big namespace change, and so basically not usable. Unfortunately Debian's three year release cycle, and 'never ever change

Re: survey

2005-08-26 Thread Boysenberry Payne
I'm using apache 1.3.33 and mod_perl 1.29. I would have went apache 2 and mp 2 but I saw the mod_perl in beta warning and wasn't sure if it was a good idea to use it in a production environment. Even if I had wanted to our host uses apache 1.3.33 and mod_perl 1.29 as the default set up. On my O

Re: survey

2005-08-26 Thread Octavian Rasnita
we are talking about advocacy, so why not promoting mod_perl in any way if it is possible and doesn't hurt anyone? I also think that it would be a good idea to set an HTTP header by default which announces mod_perl. The winners are those who created bad but simple programs, simple programming lang

Re: survey

2005-08-26 Thread Octavian Rasnita
ot; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Frank Wiles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 19:33 PM Subject: Re: survey > On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 09:41 -0500, Frank Wiles wrote: > > Perrin, if you need some help or need someone to take it over, > > I

Re: survey

2005-08-26 Thread Octavian Rasnita
From: "Perrin Harkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 12:47 -0400, Adam Prime x443 wrote: > > PHP uses: X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.11 > > > > To effectively bypass the front end server problem. > > We decided not to do that, since it's intrusive. > PHP users can decide if that HTTP hea

Re: survey

2005-08-26 Thread Frank Wiles
On 26 Aug 2005 11:43:17 -0700 merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) wrote: > Perhaps if mod_perl announced itself by default, but a simple > directive turned it off? Then at least the statistics for it would be > in the same meaningless camp as mod_php. :) I think that's a reasonable idea

Re: survey

2005-08-26 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Adam" == Adam Prime x443 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Adam> Either way though, I think these numbers are useless for the Adam> most part. I would guess that the vast majority of the sites Adam> that have mod_perl or mod_php in their headers are mass hosting Adam> providers that are running

RE: survey

2005-08-26 Thread Adam Prime x443
MAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 12:56 PM To: Adam Prime x443 Cc: modperl@perl.apache.org Subject: RE: survey On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 12:47 -0400, Adam Prime x443 wrote: > PHP uses: X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.11 > > To effectively bypass the front end server problem. We decid

Re: survey

2005-08-26 Thread Tony Clayton
Quoting Tony Clayton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Quoting Frank Wiles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:46:36 -0500 > > Tony Clayton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Quoting Frank Wiles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > > On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 10:32:33 -0400 > > > > "Christopher H. L

RE: survey

2005-08-26 Thread Perrin Harkins
On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 12:47 -0400, Adam Prime x443 wrote: > PHP uses: X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.11 > > To effectively bypass the front end server problem. We decided not to do that, since it's intrusive. What I was asking about is whether anyone checked to see if the numbers for other things seem t

RE: survey

2005-08-26 Thread Adam Prime x443
PHP uses: X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.11 To effectively bypass the front end server problem. Adam -Original Message- From: Perrin Harkins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 12:25 PM To: Frank Wiles Cc: modperl@perl.apache.org Subject: Re: survey On Fri, 2005-08-26 at

Re: survey

2005-08-26 Thread Frank Wiles
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 12:33:36 -0400 Perrin Harkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have not had time to work on it. What it still needs is > incorporation of a Win32 success story that I have in bits and pieces > in several e- mails. It's not a simple job to turn it into something > coherent. If

Re: survey

2005-08-26 Thread Perrin Harkins
On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 09:41 -0500, Frank Wiles wrote: > Perrin, if you need some help or need someone to take it over, > I've got some time this weekend I could work on it. Let me know. The document has been in the mod_perl docs subversion repository for a while now, here: http://svn.apache.o

*nix distro compatibility (was Re: survey)

2005-08-26 Thread Tony Clayton
Quoting Fred Moyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Frank Wiles wrote: > > > We tried last year to get a mod_perl advocacy movement going, > but > > not to many people were interested in helping with it. > > There is a mailing list just for the advocacy movement here: > > http://perl.apache.org/mai

Re: survey

2005-08-26 Thread Perrin Harkins
On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 09:25 -0500, Frank Wiles wrote: > 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 > do. There you go. None of the sites that I know run mod_perl, including my own, have it in their f

Re: survey

2005-08-26 Thread Perrin Harkins
On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 10:54 -0500, Tony Clayton wrote: > I've raised a bug on the Centos site for upgrading to mod_perl 2.0.1: > http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=1001 Doesn't Centos just track RHEL? I didn't think they offered any additional packages. I believe it's Red Hat who would need to

Re: survey

2005-08-26 Thread Perrin Harkins
On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 10:32 -0400, Christopher H. Laco wrote: > Part of it may also be that I still see people and posts surprised that > "mod_perl 2 is finished?". Where do you see these? It was announced on Slashdot, which is about as good as it gets for reaching actual programmers.

Re: survey

2005-08-26 Thread Fred Moyer
Frank Wiles wrote: > We tried last year to get a mod_perl advocacy movement going, but > not to many people were interested in helping with it. There is a mailing list just for the advocacy movement here: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/advocacy.html The last post was in May, right before

Re: survey

2005-08-26 Thread Tony Clayton
Quoting Frank Wiles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:46:36 -0500 > Tony Clayton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Quoting Frank Wiles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 10:32:33 -0400 > > > "Christopher H. Laco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > Part of it may

Re: survey

2005-08-26 Thread Christopher H. Laco
Christopher H. Laco wrote: Part of it may also be that I still see people and posts surprised that "mod_perl 2 is finished?". -=Chris Oh yeah. Last night I installed MP2 on a fresh FreeBSD5 install using ports that used: http://www.apache.org/dist/perl/mod_perl-2.0.1.tar.gz This is sti

Re: survey

2005-08-26 Thread Frank Wiles
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

Re: survey

2005-08-26 Thread Frank Wiles
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:46:36 -0500 Tony Clayton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quoting Frank Wiles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 10:32:33 -0400 > > "Christopher H. Laco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Part of it may also be that I still see people and posts surprised > > > t

Re: survey

2005-08-26 Thread Tony Clayton
Quoting Frank Wiles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 10:32:33 -0400 > "Christopher H. Laco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Part of it may also be that I still see people and posts surprised > > that "mod_perl 2 is finished?". > > That could be as well. We should really get our 2.

Re: survey

2005-08-26 Thread Frank Wiles
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 10:32:33 -0400 "Christopher H. Laco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Part of it may also be that I still see people and posts surprised > that "mod_perl 2 is finished?". That could be as well. We should really get our 2.0 press release out. Perrin, if you need some hel

Re: survey

2005-08-26 Thread 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 disc

Re: survey

2005-08-26 Thread Michael Peters
Octavian Rasnita 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 Just a guess, but I think it might be related to the fact that some servers moved to Apach