RE: [ot] Perl Survey

2010-06-04 Thread cfaust-dougot
Closed now, just missed it :( From: Fred Moyer [mailto:f...@redhotpenguin.com] Sent: Wed 6/2/2010 12:45 PM To: mod_perl list Subject: [ot] Perl Survey I just read that the Perl Survey will be closing in 24 hours so if you get this I'd encourage you to fi

[ot] Perl Survey

2010-06-02 Thread Fred Moyer
I just read that the Perl Survey will be closing in 24 hours so if you get this I'd encourage you to fill it out. I guess it has only been up for a little over a week, but they've gotten ~3k responses and are closing it off tomorrow. http://survey.perlfoundation.org/

Re: mod_perl survey results

2008-11-12 Thread Perrin Harkins
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 7:33 PM, Joel Bernstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/11/11 Perrin Harkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 2:09 PM, Octavian Rasnita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> However, I've seen that many Catalyst developers prefer to use fastcgi and >>> not mod_perl

Re: mod_perl survey results

2008-11-12 Thread Foo JH
William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: > Foo JH wrote: >> Adam Prime wrote: >>> The results of the mod_perl survey that Fred Moyer and I conducted can >>> be found at the following link: >> Interesting list. Any chance the workshop will come to Singapore? :) >

Re: mod_perl survey results

2008-11-11 Thread Perrin Harkins
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 7:46 PM, Andrew Rodland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But you _do_ want to keep static file serving apart from the app code (or else > incur the memory overhead of an app process for every file download), so you > do > need to go that frontend/backend route -- and it seems t

Re: [ot] Re: mod_perl survey results

2008-11-11 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
Douglas Hunter wrote: I've been playing with the experimental event MPM for a front end caching reverse proxy, and have been very happy with the results so far. ditto. Witness it in use here: http://ridecharge.com PXY: httpd 2.2.9 w/ event mpm Cache: X APP: mongrel mongrel's replacement pass

Re: mod_perl survey results

2008-11-11 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Foo JH wrote: > Adam Prime wrote: >> The results of the mod_perl survey that Fred Moyer and I conducted can >> be found at the following link: > Interesting list. Any chance the workshop will come to Singapore? :) Not quite, but close... http://us.apachecon.com/c/accn2008

Re: mod_perl survey results

2008-11-11 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Adam Prime wrote: > André Warnier wrote: >> Maybe this is the time to ask. >> I am using Linux Debian, and getting Apache 2, perl and mod_perl 2 >> from there (apt-get). >> I have never been quite sure which mpm the packager decided to >> configure, as the apache2.conf contains parameters for prefo

[ot] Re: mod_perl survey results

2008-11-11 Thread Douglas Hunter
Perrin Harkins wrote: On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 3:42 PM, Adam Prime <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'd really love to see a best practices kind of document, or at least a more detailed document that described getting the light front / heavy backend stuff working. The mp1 guide has a pretty extensive

Re: mod_perl survey results

2008-11-11 Thread Andrew Rodland
Perrin Harkins elem.com> writes: > > On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 12:49 PM, David E. Wheeler kineticode.com> wrote: > > To a certain degree, Apache/mod_perl is a victim of the success of HTTP. > > It's fairly easy to implement a new HTTP server, so there are a lot of them, > > and many are easy to u

Re: mod_perl survey results

2008-11-11 Thread Perrin Harkins
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 3:42 PM, Adam Prime <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd really love to see a best practices kind of document, or at least a more > detailed document that described getting the light front / heavy backend > stuff working. The mp1 guide has a pretty extensive section on the vari

Re: mod_perl survey results

2008-11-11 Thread Adam Prime
Perrin Harkins wrote: It's the same with mod_perl: you can restart your backend server without touching the frontend proxy server. It's possible that some FastCGI implementations have a truly seamless way to do this though, holding requests while the backend restarts. I haven't played with it

Re: mod_perl survey results

2008-11-11 Thread Perrin Harkins
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 2:09 PM, Octavian Rasnita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > However, I've seen that many Catalyst developers prefer to use fastcgi and > not mod_perl, because when using fastcgi, the applications can be restarted > without restarting the whole web server. It's the same with mod_

Re: mod_perl survey results

2008-11-11 Thread Octavian Rasnita
- Original Message - 2:49 PM, David E. Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: To a certain degree, Apache/mod_perl is a victim of the success of HTTP. It's fairly easy to implement a new HTTP server, so there are a lot of them, and many are easy to use and extremely fast. If all you're inter

Re: mod_perl survey results

2008-11-11 Thread John Siracusa
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 1:15 PM, Perrin Harkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 12:49 PM, David E. Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> To a certain degree, Apache/mod_perl is a victim of the success of HTTP. It's >> fairly easy to implement a new HTTP server, so there are a l

Re: mod_perl survey results

2008-11-11 Thread John Siracusa
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 1:27 PM, David E. Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 11, 2008, at 10:15 AM, Perrin Harkins wrote: > >> I'm fine with people using other open source tools to get where they >> want to go but the justifications they make about mod_perl being >> heavier or slower rarel

Re: mod_perl survey results

2008-11-11 Thread Fred Moyer
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 10:15 AM, Perrin Harkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 12:49 PM, David E. Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've said this before, but I think this is not a very rational claim. > Network servers are actually pretty hard to get right and HTTP is no

Re: mod_perl survey results

2008-11-11 Thread David E. Wheeler
On Nov 11, 2008, at 10:15 AM, Perrin Harkins wrote: I'm fine with people using other open source tools to get where they want to go but the justifications they make about mod_perl being heavier or slower rarely have any actual research behind them. Yeah, I wasn't making the case for mongrel or

Re: mod_perl survey results

2008-11-11 Thread Michael Peters
Hmm, this is making me want to run benchmarks! Maybe a solid set of benchmarks would be a fun OSCON presentation next year. ++ I've loved your other comparison talks in the past and this would be a nice one. Make sure to include the new Mojo (kind of like Mongrel but in Perl). -- Michael

Re: mod_perl survey results

2008-11-11 Thread Perrin Harkins
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 12:49 PM, David E. Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To a certain degree, Apache/mod_perl is a victim of the success of HTTP. > It's fairly easy to implement a new HTTP server, so there are a lot of them, > and many are easy to use and extremely fast. If all you're intere

Re: mod_perl survey results

2008-11-11 Thread David E. Wheeler
On Nov 10, 2008, at 3:46 AM, André Warnier wrote: - the rate of new people coming into the community has been declining. The responses there are indeed a bit scary. It feels like we're a dying breed. I believe this is to a large extent a "marketing issue" for perl in general, and mod_per

Re: mod_perl survey results

2008-11-10 Thread Foo JH
Adam Prime wrote: > The results of the mod_perl survey that Fred Moyer and I conducted can > be found at the following link: Interesting list. Any chance the workshop will come to Singapore? :) I am strangely excited by the potential of filters. mod_perl feels like a generic tool that can d

Re: mod_perl survey results

2008-11-10 Thread John Hallam
On Mon, 10 Nov 2008, Adam Prime wrote: André Warnier wrote: Maybe this is the time to ask. I am using Linux Debian, and getting Apache 2, perl and mod_perl 2 from there (apt-get). I have never been quite sure which mpm the packager decided to configure, as the apache2.conf contains parameter

Re: mod_perl survey results

2008-11-10 Thread Torsten Foertsch
On Mon 10 Nov 2008, Steven Siebert wrote: > More memory but potentially faster, correct?  Since we don't have to > spawn as many processes to accommodate a load? Perl is a real memory hog. Byte-compiled code can become quite big. Multiply that with the number of perl interpreters running and you'

Re: mod_perl survey results

2008-11-10 Thread André Warnier
Adam Prime wrote: André Warnier wrote: Maybe this is the time to ask. I am using Linux Debian, and getting Apache 2, perl and mod_perl 2 from there (apt-get). I have never been quite sure which mpm the packager decided to configure, as the apache2.conf contains parameters for prefork, pthread

Re: mod_perl survey results

2008-11-10 Thread Perrin Harkins
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 11:45 AM, Issac Goldstand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > However, it's not necessarily better if your memory consumption goes > mostly to run-time data which can't be pre-generated (in which case > worker is better for the reasons listed below, since there's no COW benefit) T

Re: mod_perl survey results

2008-11-10 Thread Torsten Foertsch
On Mon 10 Nov 2008, André Warnier wrote: > Ok guys, I'm nowhere as good a programmer as many people on this > list, but a) I do have patience with beginners, b) I'm convinced and > c) maybe I can do something in terms of documentation, if only to fix > missing links. And d) I'd love to see my name

Re: mod_perl survey results

2008-11-10 Thread Torsten Foertsch
On Mon 10 Nov 2008, Steven Siebert wrote: > Let me know how to get involved How well is your C? There is a segfault waiting to be hunted down. It's one of the nicer. It happens each time the test suite runs with worker MPM. If interested I can give you further information. The threading branch

Re: mod_perl survey results

2008-11-10 Thread Adam Prime
André Warnier wrote: Maybe this is the time to ask. I am using Linux Debian, and getting Apache 2, perl and mod_perl 2 from there (apt-get). I have never been quite sure which mpm the packager decided to configure, as the apache2.conf contains parameters for prefork, pthread and perchild. So,

Re: mod_perl survey results

2008-11-10 Thread Perrin Harkins
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Steven Siebert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > More memory but potentially faster, correct? Since we don't have to > spawn as many processes to accommodate a load? No, there's no speed advantage to threads. In fact perl is measurably faster if you compile it with n

Re: mod_perl survey results

2008-11-10 Thread André Warnier
Perrin Harkins wrote: On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 6:46 AM, André Warnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: - A surprising number of people are running mod_perl under the worker MPM. What is so surprising about this ? (genuine curious question) Because of the way perl threads use memory, you end up using

Re: mod_perl survey results

2008-11-10 Thread Steven Siebert
More memory but potentially faster, correct? Since we don't have to spawn as many processes to accommodate a load? Although i don't use worker MPM since the codebase I adopted is not thread safe, I would investigate if it was an option. Memory is fairly cheap and, with my web servers (without DB

Re: mod_perl survey results

2008-11-10 Thread Perrin Harkins
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 6:46 AM, André Warnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> - A surprising number of people are running mod_perl under the worker >>> MPM. > > What is so surprising about this ? (genuine curious question) Because of the way perl threads use memory, you end up using less a lot les

Re: mod_perl survey results

2008-11-10 Thread André Warnier
Ok guys, I'm nowhere as good a programmer as many people on this list, but a) I do have patience with beginners, b) I'm convinced and c) maybe I can do something in terms of documentation, if only to fix missing links. And d) I'd love to see my name somewhere as a contributor, even at the very

Re: mod_perl survey results

2008-11-10 Thread Adam Prime
Steven Siebert wrote: I'm relatively new to mod_perl - moving to a new job who's application is solely written in it. This is a return to Perl for me, having worked in PHP, Java, and .NET since Perl 4. As I'm learning to love mod_perl and Perl in general, perhaps it's a good time for me to cont

Re: mod_perl survey results

2008-11-10 Thread Steven Siebert
I'm relatively new to mod_perl - moving to a new job who's application is solely written in it. This is a return to Perl for me, having worked in PHP, Java, and .NET since Perl 4. As I'm learning to love mod_perl and Perl in general, perhaps it's a good time for me to contribute back by writing p

Re: mod_perl survey results

2008-11-10 Thread Adam Prime
André Warnier wrote: The responses there are indeed a bit scary. It feels like we're a dying breed. I believe this is to a large extent a "marketing issue" for perl in general, and mod_perl by extension, with regard to the younger programmers generation. At least in various European countries

Re: mod_perl survey results

2008-11-10 Thread André Warnier
Rolf Schaufelberger wrote: Hi Adam, quite interesting. Thanks for doing all that work. Thanks too. Interesting indeed. Am Montag, 10. November 2008 03:59:13 schrieb Adam Prime: The results of the mod_perl survey that Fred Moyer and I conducted can be found at the following link: http

Re: mod_perl survey results

2008-11-10 Thread Rolf Schaufelberger
Hi Adam, quite interesting. Thanks for doing all that work. Am Montag, 10. November 2008 03:59:13 schrieb Adam Prime: > The results of the mod_perl survey that Fred Moyer and I conducted can > be found at the following link: > > http://kabob.ca/mod_perl_survey/ > > Here

mod_perl survey results

2008-11-09 Thread Adam Prime
The results of the mod_perl survey that Fred Moyer and I conducted can be found at the following link: http://kabob.ca/mod_perl_survey/ Here's a quick list of obvious (though arguable) conclusions: - a lot of people have switched to mod_perl 2, mod_perl 1 is still very significant. - mo

Re: mod_perl users survey

2008-09-03 Thread adam . prime
One final call for responses. It'd also be appreciated if you could forward the survey on to your local Perl Mongers Groups to help us reach some people that might be a little more disconnected from the mod_perl community. We've got over 300 responses so far, thanks to everyon

Re: mod_perl users survey

2008-07-08 Thread adam . prime
If anyone attempted to fill this out recently and got an message about the survey being closed, that problem has been resolved and you should be able to fill it out again. Thanks to everyone who has filled it out. Adam Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: At the impromptu mod_perl BOF at YAPC

mod_perl users survey

2008-07-07 Thread adam . prime
At the impromptu mod_perl BOF at YAPC::NA, Fred Moyer any myself hacked together a short mod_perl survey to help identify the current needs of mod_perl users. It was inspired by the Perl survey done last year by Kirrily Robert. (http://perlsurvey.org). If you read dev@ and already filled

Plat_Forms: Results and Survey

2007-06-27 Thread Alvar Freude
ty of Berlin created a survey for professional web developers and asked me to forward you the following invitation. http://www.plat-forms.org/survey/ So, I hope that a lot of Perl users say them, why they use Perl ... ;-) Ciao Alvar -- Forwarded Message -- From: F

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

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

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