On 16/02/2014 15:36, Steve Hay wrote:
On 16 February 2014 15:11, Dominic Hargreaves <d...@earth.li> wrote:
On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 11:10:20PM +1100, Carl Brewer wrote:
Having just downloaded this latest SVN repo, a grep for "2.4" in the
root dir shows a couple of changes, but no explicit mention of 2.4
support.
Before I try it, does it actually support 2.4 yet?
The Debian project is shipping mod_perl with httpd24 support
based on http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/perl/modperl/branches/httpd24/.
This appears to be good enough for our needs, so you might like to give
it a try (our packages are based on a somewhat older version of that
branch, and there seem to be quite a number of changes going in, so
it's worth giving that a go. I haven't heard about any current plans for
merging this to trunk, though.
An update on the state of things regarding httpd-2.4 support in mod_perl:
We are working hard to get this done and are 99% of the way there.
Both volunteers and volunteers' time is limited, though, so progress
has been slow. A lot of work has taken place in the httpd24 branch,
and as Dominic says, some Linux distros are already shipping that.
Further improvements to mod_perl have also been made in the threading
branch, and in a bid to improve the state of httpd-2.4 support on
Windows I recently merged the two together in a new branch called
httpd24threading. This is where current development activity is taking
place, and we are now sufficiently close that I expect this to be
merged back to trunk soon.
However, we still have several test failures on Windows. If that was
the only problem then we would perhaps go ahead with a release now,
simply documenting the known tets failures on Windows, but I think
things are not quite there yet on other OSes either.
Once we have things stable with most, if not all, tests passing on the
likes of Mac OS X and some Linux systems then I epxect we will roll
out 2.0.9. (There is currently a known issue with t not
working for both httpd-2.2 and -2.4. I'm not sure how that will be
resolved yet, or if it will be sorted before we roll a release.)
Thanks for all the hard work - just from personal experience our
internal framework
(which is close to being open sourced) is currently running on both
apache 2.2 & 2.4.
In fact the Apache differences were more of a challenge than the
mod_perl ones
to be honest...
It would be good to have a list of known "features" which may not be
fully working...
we are fortunate that the code we have written is mod_perl 2.0 from the
ground up
(and is tied to being mod_perl - no nasty CGI wrapper code)
James
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