> Thats a freaking lot of combinations for mod_perl2 to support. I'm > impressed. > Anyone thought of dropping support for old versions of httpd ? I know I > don't ever compile less > then 2.0.50 for testing these days which was released 29-Jun-2004 01:20 > and thus 2 years old minus 1 month.
well, understand that some folks just can't easily migrate off their stable platform (oracle i8, anyone? :) so we ought to continue to support older versions for as long as it's feasable and doesn't get in the way of forward development. but, that said, we've supported 2.0.47 for a while now, so I don't see why we can't bump to a higher version as long as we let folks know about it. however, I don't think that "a freaking lot of combinations for mod_perl2 to support" necessarily qualifies as a good reason to force our users to upgrade. so, here's what I'd propose... o historically we've made some attempt to keep mp2 and apreq in sync wrt minimum supported versions, so let's kind of try to maintain the harmony and bump in suit if it makes sense o at the very least, we ought to release the next mp2 with the current state of back compat. if we decide we're moving to 2.0.50 that should be nice and big at the top of the release notes - "this will be the last mp2 that will support 2.0.47 - 2.0.49 - consider upgrading to at least 2.0.50 in the near future, please" or somesuch o really consider whether dropping support for 2.0.47 - 2.0.49 is good for our userbase, balancing their needs with our substantial lack of development tuits at the moment. --Geoff
