Greg, Not really fair for a harsh demand like that. Does Netscape support version 4 of their browser? Probably not anymore. Does Microsoft support version 4 of their browser anymore? Definitely not. Their answers will most likely be "upgrade" to our latest and greatest! Why would Macromedia be any different from any other software provider out there?
What cracks me up is that there's a lot of people that won't touch CFMX based on other people's experience. If that were true, NO ONE would upgrade to anything. Take WinXP for example, I've heard all kinds of horror stories on people upgrading, but ... I can't say that I, myself, have seen any of their issues and my upgrade went rather flawless. What's even worst is that people *knew* that cfmx was coming, people *knew* that allaire (now Macromedia) was going to be writing Neo. Heck, when I remember upgrading to CF 5 and suddenly the buzzword was Neo. I had to call up my contact inside allaire (at that time) and ask him what Neo was all about in which I was provided technical whitepapers that explained the road going forward. Then again, perhaps you've already ran into issues that I'm not aware of (and, I'd like to hear about it off-list if you have). Or, perhaps there's just no time to invest into CFMX. That being said, CFMX & Apache 2 do work pretty good together. One of the issues with CFMX & the latest RedHat platform (especially 7.3 and 8.0) is that the jvm acts differently on it than it did on previous versions (correct me if I'm wrong Jesse!). I can say that I know of two servers out there running CFMX, Apache 2 on RH 7.3 successfully - there were issues, but upgrading to Apache 2 took care of them. Vern V. announced that Macromedia is working on something so that the Apache Group won't break the stub files every other week when they change the magic module number. So, hopefully we'll see that soon. ~Todd On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Greg Bullough wrote: > Has anyone successfully built a mod_coldfusion.so for Apache 2 > and Linux? > > We've just moved to RedHat 8.0 and had to regress back to > Apache 1.3.27 (which we had to build ourselves) because > Macromedia has elected not to provide support of the > prior release on the current, more secure, Apache > web server. > > We tried compiling Dwayne's modified mod_coldfusion.c, > but ran into issues with the Macromedia-provided library. > > This will be a serious problem if 5.0 users are 'stuck' on > Apache 1.3. It also sends a bad precedent regarding > reasonable support periods for prior releases of > Cold Fusion... ...this is definitely not 'Enterprise' > software quality of support. > > The sad thing is that MM has the resources to provide > hundreds of customers with relief with only a few hours > investment in developer time to provide a 'clean' migration > path to Apache 2. > > The question is, are customers important enough for them > to do so? > > Greg -- ============================================================ Todd Rafferty ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) - http://www.web-rat.com/ | Team Macromedia Volunteer for ColdFusion | http://www.macromedia.com/support/forums/team_macromedia/ | http://www.devmx.com/ - Todd (Moderator / CoFounder) | http://www.flashCFM.com/ - webRat (Moderator) | Speakeasy DSL - http://www.speakeasy.net/refer/18280 | ============================================================ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com
