Hi!

On Don, Jun 05, 2003 at 06:42:08 +1000, Stas Bekman wrote:

> to check the version you can do:
> 
> /home/stas> perl-blead           -Mmod_perl -le 'print mod_perl->VERSION'
> 1.2701
> /home/stas> perl-blead -MApache2 -Mmod_perl -le 'print mod_perl->VERSION'
> 1.9910

Nice trick!

I looked for a place to add this to the docs, but I didn't find anything, so
I added it to docs/conventions (together with a short note on mod_perl
version numbers)

patch attachted (feel free to move it to a better place, if you know one)

-- 
#!/usr/bin/perl                               http://domm.zsi.at
for(ref bless{},just'another'perl'hacker){s-:+-$"-g&&print$_.$/}
? patch
Index: src/docs/conventions.pod
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/cvspublic/modperl-docs/src/docs/conventions.pod,v
retrieving revision 1.1
diff -u -u -r1.1 conventions.pod
--- src/docs/conventions.pod    18 Jun 2002 08:39:53 -0000      1.1
+++ src/docs/conventions.pod    5 Jun 2003 10:18:00 -0000
@@ -66,4 +66,47 @@
 
 =back
 
+=head1 mod_perl version numbers
+
+Currently, two quite different versions of mod_perl are used.
+
+=over
+
+=item *
+
+B<mod_perl 1.0>
+
+stable version, to be used with Apache 1.x
+
+=item *
+
+B<mod_perl 2.0>
+
+development version, to be used with Apache 2.x
+
+=back 
+
+Although the docs refer to I<mod_perl 1.0> the actual version number
+is quite different. At the time of writing, the latest stable release
+is mod_perl 1.27. We use the more general mod_perl 1.0 and mod_perl
+2.0 to avoid either outdated docs or unnecesary work.
+
+=head2 What version of mod_perl am I running?
+
+To find the version number of mod_perl 1.0, try this:
+
+  % perl -Mmod_perl -le 'print mod_perl->VERSION'
+
+To find the version number of mod_perl 2.0, try this:
+
+  % perl -MApache2 -Mmod_perl -le 'print mod_perl->VERSION'
+
+C<-MApache2> loads Apache2, so if you do not have mod_perl 2.0 installed, this 
will die with an error message like
+
+  Can't locate Apache2.pm in @INC (@INC contains: ...
+
 =cut
+
+
+
+

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