Geoffrey Young wrote: > > Torsten Foertsch wrote: >> On Wednesday 17 October 2007 18:10, Philippe M. Chiasson wrote: >>> Yeah, I know. If you ask me, this pnotes behaviour is wrong, but we chose >>> to keep it around for historical reasons. It's not a bug if it's documented >> It is a bug. If it is documented it is a documented bug. I was hit by it >> once >> and spent a day or so to find it, really nasty. I cannot agree with >> the "historical" reason. If something is wrong it it wrong and it doesn't >> matter how long it has been wrong before. > > there is a very long thead in the archives about this very thing. my > stance is still what I wrote at the bottom here: > > http://marc.info/?l=apache-modperl-dev&m=114987370431251&w=2 > > in short, we have an obligation to not bork our existing userbase who > may have been (perhaps unknowingly) taking advantage of this unique > feature of pnotes() for years and years.
I buy that for mod_perl 1.x, but for 2.x, not as much so. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Philippe M. Chiasson GPG: F9BFE0C2480E7680 1AE53631CB32A107 88C3A5A5 http://gozer.ectoplasm.org/ m/gozer\@(apache|cpan|ectoplasm)\.org/
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