Hi there,
On Mon, 8 May 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I've expirienced similar problems on Solaris (2.6). After a weeks
> worth of hours I feel confidant saying that the instability is from
> perl 5.6.0 NOT from mod_perl(1.23)
[snip]
> IMHO Solaris(2.6)Perl(5.6) just isn't fully cooked yet.
>From what I've seen Solaris is not much worse than any other OS for
bugs. But Stas and I both reacted in the same way when 'perl -MCPAN'
tried to upgrade Perl 5.005_03 to 5.6.0 on our development machines.
We stopped it immediately.
It's just too new. People who like being on the bleeding edge have a
lot of fun testing things so that the more pedestrian of us can have
more reliable products. I like it that way, and I thank them.
There are no secrets about any of this.
I think you were brave indeed to jump into 5.6.0 so soon. I'll leave
it for at least several months, and then I'll run it on a development
machine to start with.
> I'd just like to say that in this regard I didn't find Open Source
> very Open. In fact things seemed quite corporate with the
> newsgroups and mailing lists saying "off topic for here" or even
> failing to post legitimate questions.
I can't agree with this. You have to do a lot of homework if you are
to avoid wasting a lot of very valuable time that you have no right to
waste, and you can't blame people who tell you things for telling you
again if you didn't listen the first time. But if you do the homework
and try your best to stick to the conventions you'll find tremendously
valuable resources. Free.
> These products are getting so intertwined the definition of what
> topic belongs where begins to get mighty grey.
I _can_ agree with this. And if you spend time reading this List you
will see, I'm sure, that its readers take a fairly relaxed view about
[OT] posts. But you *do* have to do a bit of work if you are to earn
respect - anywhere. I think it was Graucho Marx who said he didn't
want to join any club that would have him as a member...
> Then again maybe I just didn't read enough FAQs to ask the question
> the right way. I'm not wanting to start a flame war, just reporting
> it as I see it.
Don't sweat it, I'm sure no-one will be offended:)
73,
Ged.
