A word of caution from personal experience here.
First, I love ActiveState' s stuff - I bought (out of my pocket) personal
and pro licenses for Komodo 3.2 and 3.5. I run ActivePerl 5.8 and
ActivePython 2.4 on my Winblows and Linux boxes at home. So what's the
prob?
At the office, installing ActivePerl just annoyed the sysadmins because
it didn't really break anything but I found myself in the position of begin
able to take advantage of some pretty cool modules (like IO::ALL, e.g.) that
have been upgraded or designed for 5.8 when the infrastructure remains at
5.6. I didn't think of this (doh!) until I tried deploying a little app
I wrote and found it wouldn't work. Make sure your infrastructure will
support your upgrade!
Second, and though way more serious for me but perhaps not for you, I did
the same with ActivePython and it broke all the system utilities on my Red Hat
Enterprise 4 workstation. This really pissed off the sysadmins and
raised flags with the Security folks.
Third, one of the linux support folks here told me they were not
supporting ActiveState products because the company was in the process of
dissolving or being bought or something that made service and support
continuity questionable. Can anybody confirm this?
It's free ;-)
http://www.activestate.com/Tom
Jeff
Pang wrote:
>> Why don't you try ActivePerl instead of cygwin
?
>
> Is there any free version of ActivePerl£¿or how much
should I pay for
> it?thanks.
>
>
----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Jason J.
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*To:* modperl@perl.apache.org <
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*Sent:* Thursday, February 16, 2006 4:28 AM
>
*Subject:* mod_perl 2.0.0 + Apache 2.0.55 on Cygwin Win2k3
>
> I have an application that is based on
Apache::ASP. Apache::ASP
> requires
Apache2::porting and Apache2::compat to be in the startup.pl.
>
> Everything is working very well. I some how
got mod_perl to build
> and running with out a
segfault. This is good. The issue is when
>
startup.pl is called, either from the command line or within
apache
> I get this error:
>
> [Wed Feb 15 13:47:49 2006] [error] Can't
load
>
'/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8/cygwin/auto/Apache2/ServerUtil/ServerUtil.dll'
>
for module Apache2::ServerUtil: No such process
at
> /usr/lib/perl5/5.8/cygwin/XSLoader.pm line
68.\n at
>
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8/cygwin/Apache2/XSLoader.pm
line
> 30\nCompilation failed in require at
/u01/startup.pl line 4.\nBEGIN
>
failed--compilation aborted at /u01/startup.pl line
4.\nCompilation
> failed in require at (eval 2)
line 1.\n
>
> Suggestions?
>
> I have also have this some what working on
native Win32 install of
> perl/apache/mod_perl.
but apache goes into some sort of loop, eating
>
memory and a kill is required, but this is random and only
after
> some load testing.
>
> --
> Jason Czerak ([EMAIL PROTECTED] <
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