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Posted to modperl@perl.apache.org by Matt Sergeant <ma...@sergeant.org> on 2000/07/26 09:52:27 UTC

EVERYTHING=1

Why can't we make EVERYTHING=1 the default? It just seems so much more
sensible to me... (I get a lot of problems with people having compiled a
default mod_perl and who don't have Apache::Log).

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Re: EVERYTHING=1

Posted by Ask Bjoern Hansen <as...@valueclick.com>.
On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Matt Sergeant wrote:

> > MS> Why can't we make EVERYTHING=1 the default? It just seems so much more
> > MS> sensible to me... (I get a lot of problems with people having compiled a
> > MS> default mod_perl and who don't have Apache::Log).
> > 
> > I think it is safe to do so now.  At one point, there were features
> > that were unstable/broken that would get built, which is why it wasn't
> > the default before.
> 
> Those are the ones under EXPERIMENTAL=1, aren't they? (actually are there
> any experimental features actually enabled with that option?)

yes.

my %experimental = map { $_,1 } qw{
PERL_AUTOPRELOAD
PERL_DSO_UNLOAD
PERL_STARTUP_DONE_CHECK
PERL_RUN_XS
PERL_MARK_WHERE
DO_INTERNAL_REDIRECT
PERL_TIE_SCRIPTNAME
PERL_STASH_POST_DATA
XS_IMPORT
PERL_SAFE_STARTUP
PERL_DEFAULT_OPMASK
PERL_ORALL_OPMASK
};


 - ask

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Re: EVERYTHING=1

Posted by Matt Sergeant <ma...@sergeant.org>.
On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Vivek Khera wrote:

> >>>>> "MS" == Matt Sergeant <ma...@sergeant.org> writes:
> 
> MS> Why can't we make EVERYTHING=1 the default? It just seems so much more
> MS> sensible to me... (I get a lot of problems with people having compiled a
> MS> default mod_perl and who don't have Apache::Log).
> 
> I think it is safe to do so now.  At one point, there were features
> that were unstable/broken that would get built, which is why it wasn't
> the default before.

Those are the ones under EXPERIMENTAL=1, aren't they? (actually are there
any experimental features actually enabled with that option?)

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Re: EVERYTHING=1

Posted by Vivek Khera <kh...@kciLink.com>.
>>>>> "MS" == Matt Sergeant <ma...@sergeant.org> writes:

MS> Why can't we make EVERYTHING=1 the default? It just seems so much more
MS> sensible to me... (I get a lot of problems with people having compiled a
MS> default mod_perl and who don't have Apache::Log).

I think it is safe to do so now.  At one point, there were features
that were unstable/broken that would get built, which is why it wasn't
the default before.

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Re: EVERYTHING=1

Posted by Kenneth Lee <ke...@alfacomtech.com>.
i agree, i always use EVERYTHING=1 so that i don't have to recompile 
mod_perl for specific modules.


Matt Sergeant wrote:
> 
> Why can't we make EVERYTHING=1 the default? It just seems so much more
> sensible to me... (I get a lot of problems with people having compiled a
> default mod_perl and who don't have Apache::Log).
> 
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>