On May 4, 2011, at 4:12 PM, Eric Robertson wrote: > Another question just occured to me. Now that I have built and installed the > new version of PERL, will I need to rebuild mod_perl for OpenVMS in order to > get OpenVMS APACHE to use the new version of PERL?
Yes and no. You can write CGI (or other web communication methods) in plain old Perl, but what mod_perl gives you is persistence so you save the (sometimes considerable) start-up cost. mod_perl is just an Apache plug-in that is also an embedded version of the Perl interpreter. It replaces the perl.exe image but not the perlshr.exe image in a Perl installation so it is specific to a particular build of Perl. I haven't heard of any ports of mod_perl for VMS except the one Dan Sugalski did for HP ages ago and which they still distribute as part of their 5.8.6 kit. If someone gets a more recent version working with a more recent version of Perl, please post here what you needed to do to get it working. ________________________________________ Craig A. Berry mailto:craigbe...@mac.com "... getting out of a sonnet is much more difficult than getting in." Brad Leithauser
