Josh Chamas wrote:
Many functions were renamed because they were renamed in Apache 2.0 API. Worse, some functions are now have gone (e.g., send_fd). mod_perl keeps a consistent API with Apache API.Hey mod_perl users/developers,In short what I think we need is for the modperl2 perl-script configuration directive to automagically load the Apache::compat layer, please read below for why. ---- I am working on the Hello World benchmarks to get them running against mod_perl2 so we can get some numbers comparing mod_perl1 against it, and meanwhile having to port to Apache2/mod_perl2 for the first time, in this case all of the benchmarks. What struck me odd was that even the simplest of handlers would not run directly under mod_perl/1.99_05-dev, as in: sub handler { my($r) = shift; $r->content_type('text/html'); $r->send_http_header(); $r->print('Hello '); $r->print('World'); 200; } In this case the error was about content_type() not being implemented which I could fix by adding: use Apache::compat;
Because some functions are no longer supported by Apache and were replaced by similar functionalities which don't map 1:1 to the old functions, Apache::compat provides a slower perl implementation for them, but in the long run for production use you don't want to use Apache::compat.
As Doug explained on the dev list, "perl-script" handler is the normal mod_perl handler, it's not a backcompat handler.If it is the case that even the most trivial of applications need Apache::compat, then why not load the Apache::compat layer automatically? If performance is an issue, or code bloat or what not, then perhaps *Apache::compat* layer could be added only in case of using the *perl-script* config directive, instead of the new modperl directive.
Just load the Apache::compat if you need it while the dust settles down. CGI.pm 2.89 already does that.
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