Re: [RELEASE CANDIDATE] mod_perl-2.0.12 RC2 (with INSTALL update)

[Steve Hay <st...@googlemail.com>]

On Mon, 27 Dec 2021 at 21:42, Randolf Richardson <ra...@modperl.pl> wrote:
>
>         This works on Debian Linux 11.2, although with a number of warnings,
> but the end result is a successful compilation with a functioning
> Apache2 module.
>
>         I submitted a pull request for the INSTALL file to include specific
> "simple instructions" for Debian Linux 11.2:
>
>                 Added instructions for Debian Linux 11.2 #4
>                 https://www,github.com/apache/mod_perl/pull/4
>

Apologies for the very long delay in responding to this. I hope to
release 2.0.13 soon, and have finally spotted this PR in Github. (As
Ed already commented on the PR, the Github repository is just a
readonly mirror of our SVN repository. Issues should ideally be raised
via rt.cpan.org, as per https://metacpan.org/dist/mod_perl/contribute)

I'm happy to include the simple install instructions, but like Ed I
also question the prerequisites.

On Windows the only prerequisite is Win32::Process. Extra tests are
run if CGI and/or LWP are also installed, but they're not required.
Compress::Zlib is not required either, and its absence doesn't even
seem to prevent to tests from being run.

Prerequisites are already documented in the README file. Currently,
only Apache and Perl are listed. If anything else is required then
that would be the place to add that part.