Hi,
This may be a horrible suggestion. But I have seen one or two install programs ask if they can send debugging info back to the source. Certainly PHP does this when there are errors with tests.
What if at the conclusion of all of the tests, there was a prompt to ask something like,"Count me as a mod_perl user. (y/n)" Or even something more useful, like returning uname -a along with some basic info so that knowing the tests were all successful is useful.
Or I guess for that matter why not just count downloads?
Thanks,
Eric
At 04:37 PM 11/1/2004, Frank Wiles wrote:
On Mon, 01 Nov 2004 19:18:47 -0500 Stas Bekman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You mean the decline is because more and more people move to the > front-/back-end setup, and people aren't just moving to php?
Oh I'm sure some of the decline is people moving to PHP, Python, Java, etc... but I don't think that we're losing as many people as that survey says. The reason I say that is because doing a "default" install of Apache2/mp2 via the instructions on perl.apache.org, my server at home doesn't report that it is using mod_perl.
I'm sure other people are in similar situations where they don't even realize their server isn't claiming to be mod_perl powered.
> > Maybe we should put together a quick howto on fixing > > that and suggest it on the mailing list? > > Do you think it'll have any impact when we talk about hundreds of > thousands of users who aren't on the list and will never reach our > site? > > What technique to help the scanners were you thinking about?
I wasn't really thinking about a scanner technique, but you're right we wouldn't reach everyone via the mailing list. However, if we could put the howto up on the website, mention it on the list, etc it couldn't hurt to help boost those numbers.
It wouldn't be anything drastic, but shouldn't be much work for us and/or the users.
While I think the NetCraft survey is important, maybe we should attack this another way. Create our own "registered users" page, like the Linux Counter site, where mod_perl users could list their sites. This still wouldn't catch everyone, but every little bit helps.
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