First of all I apologize for this lengthy message but I stacked quite a few things to talk about.
I've been working on a few problems that I thought had to be fixed or at least tested. I want to make public on the list what I'm doing, before I pursue goals that are not shared or maybe are being addressed by Valery independently. I've already expressed my opinion about rivet's tcl procedures: I think they should end up in a directory specific to a release following the scheme already adopted in 1_0: ie to append the version number as suffix to the target directory. The advantages are clear if someone (like me) is running 2 instances of apache. I patched configure.ac and Makefile.am for this purpose: the install mechanism is working as expected and a new preprocessor symbol (RIVETLIB_DESTDIR) with the target directory gets defined in config.h, but what is the most proper way for telling Tcl_PkgRequire to load the right init.tcl? Manipulating 'auto_path' in Rivet_PerInterpInit prepending RIVETLIB_DESTDIR as first element in the list before 'package requiring' Rivetlib would make unnecessary doing it at the Tcl level in Rivetlib::Init. The only other method I can imagine is to run Tcl_EvalFile on the init.tcl using the preprocessor macro to determine the path. The more I think of this the less I like it. David I'm sure you have thoughts about this. Rivet_GetConf had lines of code for merging server and directory configurations. It shouldn't. Actually the merge code was shunned away by an unconditioned 'return' but anyway for the merging Apache has its own methods defined in the module descriptor. I commented away the spurious code and tested the merging on a few page. It seems to work. I tried also to reintroduce the exit handler which was excluded. I think the child handler has a bug when called upon child exit: in fact as Jeff Hobbs highlighted on this list in the past, interpreters must be deleted before Tcl_Finalize is called. I'm testing this patch and I had no crashes for now. again sorry for the bulky message. Have a nice weekend. -- Massimo -- Universita' degli Studi di Parma (http://www.unipr.it) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
