Stas Bekman wrote:
Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote:
In which way the support for 5.9.0 is different from the support for 5.8.1 ?
5.9.0 == 5.8.2-RC1 hashing-wise. meaning that we need to support a whole bunch of special cases, which don't exist anywhere else. We certainly can do that, but it's just a lot of mess. I wish Hugo didn't rush to get 5.9.0 before 5.8.2 was ready. Now 5.9.0 is somewhat between 5.8.1 and 5.8.2.
Yes, you're right.
I wish Hugo released 5.9.0 just after 5.8.1, or with backing out temporarily all changes since 5.8.1.
Yup. He sort of released it without much prior notice. I think there was no notice at all ;)
(I know at least one person who is considering at least semi-seriously running 5.9.0 + mp1 in production :-p)
well, please tell me if we should provide a support for it.
I was mentioning mp1. AFAIK it's fine. Oh, after all, just drop the bloody support for 5.9.0 if it's making things too complex.
Let's see if someone really asks nice we will add it. It just needs a bunch of #ifdef things which will make the already almost-unreadable code even more unreadable.
Another reason for not supporting 5.9.0 is that we already smoke too many builds ;) I smoke with:
5.005_03 5.6.2-ithread 5.8.1-ithread-nouseshrplib blead
5.6.0 5.6.2-perlio 5.8.1-nouseperlio blead-ithread
5.6.0-ithread 5.8.0 5.8.2 blead-multi
5.6.1 5.8.0-ithread 5.8.2-ithread makelinks
5.6.1-ithread 5.8.1 5.8.2-ithread-nouseshrplib
5.6.2 5.8.1-ithread 5.8.2-nouseperlio
multiplied by at least 4, for mp1, mp2/prefork, mp2/threaded and various special configs. amounting for almost a 100 different builds. plus smokes for my Apache:: Modules against each of these configs... my poor notebook is overheated all the time, I need to ask someone to donate me a good SMP machine ;)
blead yes, I didn't suggest not to support blead, I meant to suggest not to support particular blead releases but just the head ;)
BTW, just finishing smoking 5.6.2 plays very nice with both mod_perl generations.
I'm glad to hear that. I'll have to find tuits to finish 5.6.2, but isn't the planet already overloaded those days with new perl releases ?
As you can see on the modperl list we advise using perl 5.6.1 for mod_perl 1 (and mod_perl 2 prefork) as a much faster alternative to 5.8.x (unless you need utf/threads/perlio/etc). So having 5.6.2 out, is definitely a good thing.
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