On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 23:29, Philip M. Gollucci wrote: > I haven't really had a hard time with this except: > CGI.pm ($query = CGI->new())
What about it? Is it not working? > Spreadsheet::WriteExcel (0.26 or less for Win2k/ISS5.0&PerlEx current is > .40 most likely not thread safe) > GD.pm (ActiveState only has GD1.x for 5.6.1 and compile errors for GD2.x > on 5.8.0) > XML::Simple (Active State5.6.1 is only at 1.06 missing some critical > features from the current ~2.05) > DateTime modules (datetime.perl.org ActiveState 5.6.1 has nothing... I > think 5.8.0 might have some) Building your own .ppm files seems like the only way to solve these. > use lib qw(.......) (ISS automagically adds "." to this. Under unix, > this is not the case > First thought, use FindBin, but its not thread safe, so mod_perl2.x > fails. > Only anwser I've come up with is to have an "installation" script > edit a place holder in the "main" file You could use a config file or an environment variable, but what is the problem with FindBin exactly? I haven't heard about it not being thread safe before. > However, "caching" is much more beneficially in IIS5.0/PerlEx then > apache1.x/mod_perl1.x (rarely if ever get server by the same child in > Apache) In apache 1.x on Win32, you always get the same child since there is only one. With 1.x on FreeBSD, the allocation will basically round-robin through all of your live apache children. - Perrin
