On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, G.W. Haywood wrote:
> Dear Mr. Baker,
>
> If you have "never bothered" to find out why `make test' is failing
> then obviously you don't have any "production mod_perl systems". In
> the light of the comments from Mr. Schwartz, it looks like you have
> only development systems that haven't gone wrong yet, and that a lot
> of other people might be in the same boat, thanks to you.
I find this a rather harsh attitude towards someone on a free list trying
to help people. However I'm more bothered with the second half of your
message:
> This has cost me nearly four weeks already, and I dread to think how
> many other people have wasted their time because you never bothered.
>
> For me, your slapdash approach has polluted the mod_perl resource to
> the extent that now I don't trust any of it. The entire exercise is
> written off to experience and I am looking for alternatives.
>
> Earlier in November, Stas Bekman put out a message saying something
> like: "Come on, guys, let's get some of this stuff to work".
>
> Surely no-one can be content with the state things are in at present?
We're software developers. We're never content with the present state of
things. However there's currently only my company providing commercial
support for mod_perl, and we haven't been able to put anything back into
the project yet due to other work (which will hopefully change in the
coming months).
If you require commercial support for installation and
application development we'd be more than willing to help out (subject to
contract), and of course we'll feed back any changes into the mod_perl tree.
But I don't think you can really expect anything more from this free list
and the very helpful and knowledgable people on it.
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