Yea I did some more research and you are completely correct (go figure eh?). I was just looking to test it out after reading a bunch of stuff about it. In the end I don't think it's really what I wanted anyways. I just went back to reading perlipc docs. I know this is probably not the place but do you or anyone have some good references for coding multi-threaded perl apps?
-Ryan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brendan O'Dea" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ryan White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2002 3:30 AM Subject: Re: Threaded Perl > On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 03:52:42PM -0800, Ryan White wrote: > >I posted to debian-user but no one seems to know or want to respond. So I > >was wondering what the status of perl-thread is? Is it no longer being > >developed (packaged) or is it just not going to make it in testing. Is there > >a different package that provides the same thing now? Am I stuck compiling > >my own perl binary? I'm sure I'm not the first one to need thread support in > >perl, I feel like I'm missing something obvious. > > Sorry Ryan, for the moment you are stuck compiling your own binary. > > I'm loathe to enable threading support in the standard perl package > given that the documentation lists a bunch of warnings and notes that > "it is not recommended for production machines". > > In addition, enabling thread support would break binary compatibility > with the 100+ current binary perl modules. > > Providing a separate perl-thread (and libperl5.6-thread) package still > has the binary compatibility issues, meaning that any binary module > package which is to be used by perl-thread needs to be built twice: > once for the perl package and once for perl-thread. > > To further complicate matters, there are two different threading models: > 5.005 threads and ithreads. The former allows user-level threads to be > created, the latter does not but is useful for interfacing with threaded > libraries. > > So conceivably there would be three perl interpreters (perl, perl-thread > and perl-ithread) and in cases three versions binary modules > (libfoo-perl, libfoo-perl-thread, libfoo-perl-ithread). > > If/when threading support stabilises I will consider making the standard > perl thread-enabled (which would require rebuilding a bunch of packages > transitionally, but would be simpler in the long term). > > I will re-investigate the situation when 5.8.0 is released but for now > I'm afraid that building your own perl is required if you need threads. > > Regards, > -- > Brendan O'Dea >
