HEADS UP: mod_perl2 API changes

[Lars Eggert]

On May 12, 2005, at 11:08 , Lars Eggert wrote:
> On May 12, 2005, at 11:03 , Sergey Matveychuk wrote:
>> Lars Eggert wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks for the list! Note that some other ports that do not   
>>> explicitly list mod_perl2 as a dependency include code that uses  
>>> it  if installed. These will also break. Based on my own  
>>> experience, this  includes at least www/twiki and devel/cvsweb3.  
>>> I'm sure there are  others, but I have no clue how to identify  
>>> them all.
>>
>> I'm not sure it's right. The ports will not work if they use  
>> mod_perl2 but have no depends on it.
>
> They do, it's perl. These ports contain code that says "if  
> mod_perl2 installed, use it, otherwise, just use perl." (Remember  
> that mod_perl2 at a very basic level is a performance improvement  
> that reuses spawned perl interpreters in apache. Perl CGIs run fine  
> without it, just slower.)
>
> The problem is that while the mod_perl guys changed the API to  
> *use* mod_perl2, they did not change the API to *test for it*.  
> Hence we're in a nice pickle: The test for mod_perl2 succeeds, but  
> then the calls to it fail.

Forgot to add: The maintainers of these other ports may not even be  
aware that their port contains code that will call mod_perl2 when it  
is installed.

Lars
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Lars Eggert                                     NEC Network Laboratories