-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: What's new in Perl 5.6.0 - 5.8.0 Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2002 20:39:54 +0200 From: Arthur Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Stas Bekman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On söndag, juni 2, 2002, at 08:35 , Stas Bekman wrote: > > Arthur Bergman wrote: >> On söndag, juni 2, 2002, at 07:30 , Stas Bekman wrote: >>> Also besides APR::PerlIO, are there any other things in mod_perl 2.0 >>> that require 5.8.0? I don't recall anything else. >> I would very much not run threaded mpm using 5.6.1 since regexes are >> very broken. > > meaning that 5.8.0 is pretty much the real prerequisite for the > threaded mpm? > > BTW, were these threads related things fixed in 5.6.2-tobe? Is there > any planned release date for this maintenance version? > I would say so. a) Regex are not threadsafe in 5.6 b) 5.6 does not use reentrant APIs on anything but windows c) 5.6 does not support //o d) 5.6 is not really well on all platforms with regard to threaded IO I don't know the planned release date for 5.6.2, and I don't know what is meant to be included, but both a) and c) should be fairly trivial to fix, b is mostly backporting configure probes and should be doable, d) I don't know if it is a real problem. Arthur -- __________________________________________________________________ Stas Bekman JAm_pH ------> Just Another mod_perl Hacker http://stason.org/ mod_perl Guide ---> http://perl.apache.org mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://use.perl.org http://apacheweek.com http://modperlbook.org http://apache.org http://ticketmaster.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
