Reese,Richard Stephen wrote:
Thank you for the information, it just stinks that Redhat would use
something that old in their latest OS offering because I'd rather not
manually build it
It's a long-standing problem. This history recently posted to the CentOS
mailing list:
"I think you are missing the point that there was one
version of mod_perl 1.x shipped as an update to RH7.3
that was actually usable. It was broken again in RH8
and subsequent versions including went into RHEL 3 and 4.
I think the 2.x version may finally be usable again in FC5
but I haven't really done stress testing."
Considering that this is a problem that has been going on for years, even fixed
and then broken again, I have to conclude that keeping mod_perl up to standard
just falls too low on the priority list for Red Hat. Their conclusion must be
that they don't have enough customers to warrant more resources. It may be a
sound business decision on their part, however much it annoys us.
Not sure if this is a chicken-or-the-egg thing (mod_perl rpms not working so RH
customers avoid it shrinking their size), or because mod_perl developers do
such a good job of making it easy to compile from source, or CPAN being so
useful that perl-folk are happy to wander from the rpm-fold, or their really
aren't many folk using mod_perl on Red Hat.
Interestingly, I discovered in the above referenced discussion that it is a belief among
those who don't use perl that CPAN is a "ticking time bomb," and anyone using
it for production is not quite sane.
Take care,
Kurt Hansen
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