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Posted to modperl@perl.apache.org by Jason Nicholls <ja...@mindsocket.com.au> on 2002/11/04 02:00:53 UTC

win32 mod_perl 1 and perl 5.8

G'day,

ATM we're working on a win32 platform with apache 1.3.27, Perl 5.6, and 
mod_perl 1.27_01. I was reading the OS specific documentation at:

    http://perl.apache.org/docs/1.0/os/win32/multithread.html

and discovered that with this particular setup mod_perl is effectively single
threaded. The page above doesn't actually explain why but I'm assuming it's
because of threading issues with Perl 5.6?

Does anyone know if mod_perl for win32 will be updated to work with Perl 5.8
and whether this will fix the single threaded problem mentioned above?


Thanks,

Jason Nicholls
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Re: win32 mod_perl 1 and perl 5.8

Posted by Randy Kobes <ra...@theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca>.
On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Jason Nicholls wrote:

> G'day,
> 
> ATM we're working on a win32 platform with apache 1.3.27, Perl 5.6, and 
> mod_perl 1.27_01. I was reading the OS specific documentation at:
> 
>     http://perl.apache.org/docs/1.0/os/win32/multithread.html
> 
> and discovered that with this particular setup mod_perl is
> effectively single threaded. The page above doesn't actually
> explain why but I'm assuming it's because of threading issues
> with Perl 5.6?
> 
> Does anyone know if mod_perl for win32 will be updated to work
> with Perl 5.8 and whether this will fix the single threaded
> problem mentioned above?

The single threading issue has more to do with
mod_perl-1/Apache-1, and is addressed in mod_perl-2/Apache-2 -
see http://perl.apache.org/docs/2.0/os/win32/index.html, which
also contains links to how to get Win32 binaries. mod_perl-2 can
be used with perl-5.6.1, but seems to function better under
perl-5.8, where some threading stuff is improved.

-- 
best regards,
randy kobes