Randy Kobes wrote:
The docs already say that threaded mpm needs 5.8.0On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Stas Bekman wrote:Randy Kobes wrote:ActiveState have released officially an ActivePerl 8xx Win32 binary, based on perl-5.8. For mod_perl-2, a number of people have reported problems with Win32 perl-5.6 that have been resolved by going to perl-5.8. Despite the early stages, are there any thoughts to making perl-5.8 the recommended version for mod_perl-2 on Win32?What do you mean by "making it recommended", print a warning? Since win32 users need the threaded mpm (so not to run serially), 5.8.0 is almost required, since 5.6.1's ithreads aren't as robust as 5.8.0's, no? Unless ActivePerl 5.6.1 doesn't have the same issues as the normal Perl 5.6.1 does.Although ActivePerl 5.6.1 does have some changes over the CPAN perl-5.6.1, from what I gather from mine and other's experiences, there's still problems with ActivePerl-5.6.1 and mod_perl-2 (for example, when I run the mp2 tests on 5.6.1, often all memory gets used up, but it's fine with 5.8). However, it's not necessary to have 5.8 to build mp2 - 5.6.1 is OK at this level. But perhaps a warning at the Makefile.PL stage could be given if Win32 and 5.6.1 are used, saying an upgrade to 5.8 is recommended for mp2? As well as suitable warnings in the docs?
http://perl.apache.org/docs/2.0/user/install/install.html#Prerequisites
I guess we need to add a similar note for win32 docs.
The build: currently we only warn about using 5.6.0 and suggest to move to 5.6.1 at least. Though I doubt that anybody sees that warning, as it gets swept away by compiler's noise. I was suggesting before to move this note's printing to the very end (or repeat twice?), so user will notice it. Once we think it's prominent enough I suppose that we can suggest to build with 5.8.0 for threaded mpms.
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