I use mod_perl all the time. For various reasons (not the least of which is that it simply works better), I use apache-perl, the one with mod_perl statically linked in.
Now apache-perl uses perl-5.005. Thus my inclination is to build those XS modules that I maintain using perl-5.005, which results in packages that will work on both 5.005 and 5.6. This seems to me to be ideal, at least in the short term---many of us were severly inconvenienced with the libdbi-perl came out that was not compatible with 5.005. At the same time, I'm hearing (from people on the ia64 project) that they are inconvenienced by this dependency on 5.005. I can bug Dan Jacobowitz and get him to update apache-perl, but I hate to do that, and even though he might not mind, he might not have time to deal with the issue immediately. What do people think? We have this ability to have forwards compatability. I think we should use it. Does everyone else think that's a bad idea? Mike.
