Re: nuking old mod_perls before installing unstable

2005-03-22 Thread Adam Kennedy
When I see 'use Apache2', i dont see a version number. I completely concur with Stas that tieing it to a version number is a bad idea. But i dont care whether it is Apache2 or ApacheBlue or ApacheNextGen, so long as it is different from mp1 the namespace. (snip) mp1 and mp2 are sufficiently

Re: [mp2] Our API is not perl thread-safe

2005-03-22 Thread Stas Bekman
Stas Bekman wrote: [now take your time to read the Example::CLONE manpage in [1] which explains all the issues and shows possible solutions] To save you the hussle, here is the manpage (but you will probably want to see the code and the tests anyway). __END__ =head1 NAME Example::CLONE - Demonst

Re: [mp2] Our API is not perl thread-safe

2005-03-22 Thread Stas Bekman
Stas Bekman wrote: As I've suspected our API is not perl thread-safe (note that perl's thread-safe definition and the general thread-safe concept have little to do with each other). I've started writing some tests and it's segfaults all over. Here is a very trivial test, which segfault: #!perl -

[mp2] Our API is not perl thread-safe

2005-03-22 Thread Stas Bekman
As I've suspected our API is not perl thread-safe (note that perl's thread-safe definition and the general thread-safe concept have little to do with each other). I've started writing some tests and it's segfaults all over. It all comes to the same old problem of perl cloning the objects when a

Re: mod_perl userbase care

2005-03-22 Thread Stas Bekman
Geoffrey Young wrote: so, what specifically did you have in mind, on this single issue, when you say that a rename will make matters worse than they are now? You aren't planning for the future. I don't think that answers my question, but ok :) What part have I missed? The "the 50 million modules

Re: mod_perl userbase care

2005-03-22 Thread Stas Bekman
Geoffrey Young wrote: Untill now, with a few little changes or sometimes with no changes at all (depending on what API was used) they could have the code running under mp1 and mp2. With this rename they either need to split their code and maintain different versions, which are otherwise identical,

Re: mod_perl userbase care

2005-03-22 Thread Geoffrey Young
> Untill > now, with a few little changes or sometimes with no changes at all > (depending on what API was used) they could have the code running under > mp1 and mp2. With this rename they either need to split their code and > maintain different versions, which are otherwise identical, or have an

Re: nuking old mod_perls before installing unstable

2005-03-22 Thread Gedanken
On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, Perrin Harkins wrote: I have some anecdotal evidence of support. I told a couple of my co-workers about the PMC decision to change to Apache2. Their reactions ranged from "Thank god" to "It's the only sane choice." I was actually surprised that everyone was so in favor

Re: nuking old mod_perls before installing unstable

2005-03-22 Thread Render Web
Stas Bekman wrote: Jacqui, you've forgotten to CC the list :) (again) - Doh! Render Web wrote: Stas Bekman wrote: Geoffrey Young wrote: as a community, we can decide to either stay with the current trunk, with all it's ramifications, or break some promises and fix what many think is a very major

Re: nuking old mod_perls before installing unstable

2005-03-22 Thread Perrin Harkins
On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 12:49 -0500, Stas Bekman wrote: > It makes perfect sense to people who don't use the mod_perl API, but just > run registry scripts. And it's probably the majority of our users. So I > guess the rename will certainly favor the registry users, who really don't > care about th

Re: nuking old mod_perls before installing unstable

2005-03-22 Thread Stas Bekman
Perrin Harkins wrote: On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 09:58 -0500, Stas Bekman wrote: Geoffrey Young wrote: as a community, we can decide to either stay with the current trunk, with all it's ramifications, or break some promises and fix what many think is a very major problem. I believe the so called *commun

Re: nuking old mod_perls before installing unstable

2005-03-22 Thread Perrin Harkins
On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 09:58 -0500, Stas Bekman wrote: > Geoffrey Young wrote: > > as a > > community, we can decide to either stay with the current trunk, with all > > it's ramifications, or break some promises and fix what many think is a very > > major problem. > > I believe the so called *commu

Re: nuking old mod_perls before installing unstable

2005-03-22 Thread Joe Schaefer
Randy Kobes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Just so that everyone is aware of this proposal, > perhaps the original message about the unstable > branch should also be sent to the modperl@ list? Not a good idea, IMO. Let's not discuss anything on the user mailing list unless we're discussing the tr

Re: mod_perl userbase care

2005-03-22 Thread Stas Bekman
Dominique Quatravaux wrote: [...] I think all of these folks are quite able to do a quick s/use Apache::/use Apache2::/ or something: none of the proposals so far are rocket science, really. Actually we can (and are eager to!) deal with I'm afraid this is exactly where people fail to see the proble

Re: mod_perl userbase care (was: nuking old mod_perls before installing unstable)

2005-03-22 Thread Dominique Quatravaux
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 (Due to my recent series of blunders on this list, I wonder if stepping up this particular plate is wise. Oh well :-) Stas Bekman wrote: | From the developer's point of view, this rename is insane. You | spend most of your time coding using the API. You

Re: nuking old mod_perls before installing unstable

2005-03-22 Thread Joe Schaefer
Stas Bekman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What you are proposing is a blow in the face not only to the users > but to the developer's in first place, completely undermining any > words that were said to the users before. I do believe there is a way to provide a decent compat layer for existing mp

Re: nuking old mod_perls before installing unstable

2005-03-22 Thread Randy Kobes
On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, Stas Bekman wrote: > Stas Bekman wrote: > > Geoffrey Young wrote: > > [...] > > > >> basically, my position is that mod_perl is not at 2.0 yet, so until it > >> does > >> the entire API is up for grabs. > > > > > > Your (current pmc's) position completely disregards the > > fa

Re: nuking old mod_perls before installing unstable

2005-03-22 Thread Stas Bekman
Stas Bekman wrote: Geoffrey Young wrote: [...] basically, my position is that mod_perl is not at 2.0 yet, so until it does the entire API is up for grabs. Your (current pmc's) position completely disregards the fact that when we announced the first RC1 we said that the API is *frozen* and very

Re: nuking old mod_perls before installing unstable

2005-03-22 Thread Randy Kobes
On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, Stas Bekman wrote: > Geoffrey Young wrote: > > as a community, we can decide to either stay with the > > current trunk, with all it's ramifications, or break > > some promises and fix what many think is a very major > > problem. > > I believe the so called *community* has no i

Re: nuking old mod_perls before installing unstable

2005-03-22 Thread Stas Bekman
Geoffrey Young wrote: as a community, we can decide to either stay with the current trunk, with all it's ramifications, or break some promises and fix what many think is a very major problem. I believe the so called *community* has no idea what is awaiting them. Hardly anybody is on that dev list.

Re: nuking old mod_perls before installing unstable

2005-03-22 Thread Geoffrey Young
Stas Bekman wrote: > Geoffrey Young wrote: > [...] > >> basically, my position is that mod_perl is not at 2.0 yet, so until it >> does >> the entire API is up for grabs. > > > Your (current pmc's) position completely disregards the fact that when > we announced the first RC1 we said that the

Re: nuking old mod_perls before installing unstable

2005-03-22 Thread Stas Bekman
Geoffrey Young wrote: [...] basically, my position is that mod_perl is not at 2.0 yet, so until it does the entire API is up for grabs. Your (current pmc's) position completely disregards the fact that when we announced the first RC1 we said that the API is *frozen* and very minor bug fixes may

Re: nuking old mod_perls before installing unstable

2005-03-22 Thread Geoffrey Young
Dominique Quatravaux wrote: > Geoffrey Young wrote: > > | "nuke your old 1.99 install and try again" > > Fair enough for me, although a "porting from v1.99 to v2" piece of POD > would be a plus. yes :) I guess we didn't make that clear, but yes, before we would officially release anything all

Re: nuking old mod_perls before installing unstable

2005-03-22 Thread Dominique Quatravaux
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Geoffrey Young wrote: | "nuke your old 1.99 install and try again" Fair enough for me, although a "porting from v1.99 to v2" piece of POD would be a plus. - -- Dominique QUATRAVAUX Ingénieur senior 01 44 42 00 08

nuking old mod_perls before installing unstable

2005-03-22 Thread Geoffrey Young
> - you cannot make, test, or install the unstable branch over any > other version of mod_perl-1.99 ok, let's talk about this specific detail in another thread :) I've pretty much layed out my own thoughts on why I think this needs to be, but I'll do so again here. basically, my position

Re: mod_perl 2.0 namespaces - a proposal

2005-03-22 Thread Geoffrey Young
Joe Schaefer wrote: > Geoffrey Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [...] > > >>I really don't see how it can be any other way - I absolutely, >>positively do not want to deal with questions about how prior beta >>versions mix with later beta versions and, eventually, the official >>2.0. > >

Re: mod_perl 2.0 namespaces - a proposal

2005-03-22 Thread Joe Schaefer
Geoffrey Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > I really don't see how it can be any other way - I absolutely, > positively do not want to deal with questions about how prior beta > versions mix with later beta versions and, eventually, the official > 2.0. So then, the proposed branch is a re