> 2012/2/28 Vincent Veyron <vv.li...@wanadoo.fr>: > > I am a tiny one-man company using mod_perl with great success(*) and > > pleasure, and your post has me very worried that it could end in a > > hurry :-(
I depend on mod_perl2 for nearly all the web sites that I maintain, and I've been trying to encourage others to use the same technology (it's more challenging with the hundreds of voices pushing PHP compared to my one voice promoting ModPerl, but I don't consider this a valid justification for discouragement). You probably also enjoy the efficient response times to HTTP clients and the direct server-side access to the API via APR, etc. All this and the many other things that ModPerl provides is of tremendous worth in my strong opinion. > Don't panic! There's no immediate danger to mod_perl, and most people > are not trying to run on the very latest versions of perl and apache. > Even if mod_perl someday stops being developed for new versions of > perl and apache, there will be no immediate need to move off it and > plenty of alternatives available. That's re-assuring. Thanks. > > Can't the ASF dedicate some funds for that, to pay for your work? > > No, that's not how the ASF works. Coding is a volunteer effort. > Money is spent on infrastructure like hosting. > > > Also, I wonder what the big players who subscribe to this list think of > > such a situation? > > It's fine for people to make their own deals to sponsor developers. > Some companies who need something will pay their own developers to > build it. Most likely, no one has needed this enough to develop it > yet. (Because they're all running apache 1.3...) The last time I used Apache HTTPd v1.anything on my servers was when I was hosting a few hundred web sites on Novell NetWare. When I migrated to NetBSD there was Apache HTTPd v2.something and so I used the migration as an opportunity to perform the massive code upgrades to mod_perl2 (this was not a small effort, but it also wasn't overly complicated for the most part after getting used to the changes). I hear rumours from time-to-time that SlashDot continues to use mod_perl1, but considering that mod_perl2 has been available for so long now I always doubted it under the assumption that most people would have upgraded by now. Are a lot of people still using the version 1 series of httpd and/or mod_perl? Randolf Richardson - rand...@inter-corporate.com Inter-Corporate Computer & Network Services, Inc. Beautiful British Columbia, Canada http://www.inter-corporate.com/