On 10/04/14 19:43, Joey J wrote: > Apache 2.4 has had a stable release out for over 2 years but is only > used by 2.5% of active Apache sites. Why is the adoption so low?? The > Apache foundation has been recommending upgrading to 2.4 for some time > and looking at the improvements I see significant value in several. I > don't see any reason why anybody wouldn't want to use it but the > community seems to think it's bad.
My datapoint. I was using 2.2.26 until a couple of weeks ago. I was perfectly fine with it. I upgraded to 2.4.9 because I wanted to check out the EVENT worker and many SSL improvements (OCSP stapling, Elliptic Curves). In the process I had to drop "mod_python" and make a painful, long and error-prone conversion of "order deny/allow" to "Requires". It was really annoying and I am still not sure some of my protected data is now available out there because some mistake. I am ok with the upgrading, so far (beside the annoying "you are going to be in the newspapers because you did some permissions upgrading wrong"), except for this VERY ANNOYING BUG: https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=45023 https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56354 That is not reason enough to downgrade, but it is very annoying and costly, and I am a bit dissapointed of that bug being there for ages. And ages. I am graceful to Apache team, thought. My nature is being grumpy :-). Apache is a great product. Using it since 1.3 days. I didn't upgrade before because 2.2 was working great and 2.4 was not a big enough improvement. Low return for the risk of upgrading, dropping mod_python, etc. The order->requires was a showstop for me. Maybe an automatic migration tool would help other people. Hope my datapoint be useful to somebody. -- Jesús Cea Avión _/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/ j...@jcea.es - http://www.jcea.es/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ Twitter: @jcea _/_/ _/_/ _/_/_/_/_/ jabber / xmpp:j...@jabber.org _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ "Things are not so easy" _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ "My name is Dump, Core Dump" _/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/ _/_/ "El amor es poner tu felicidad en la felicidad de otro" - Leibniz
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