Re: Apache 2.0 worker MPM

[Stas Bekman <st...@stason.org>]

Patrick Mackinlay wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am looking into using mod_perl with Apache 2 and the worker MPM, I was 
> wondering what the status is of mod_perl for this setup. I noticed that 
> in the docs it says it is in the alpha stage, is this due to perls 
> ithreads not being quite ready? 

No, it's due to the fact that Apache 2.0 wasn't released yet (meaning 
that there are still API changes) and not everything has been 
implemented in mod_perl 2.0. If you want to see what works look at the 
test suite under t/ in the source distro.

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Re: Apache 2.0 worker MPM

[Doug MacEachern <do...@covalent.net>]

On Wed, 1 May 2002, Stas Bekman wrote:
 
> No, it's due to the fact that Apache 2.0 wasn't released yet (meaning 
> that there are still API changes) and not everything has been 
> implemented in mod_perl 2.0. If you want to see what works look at the 
> test suite under t/ in the source distro.

umm, no.  support for threaded mpms is alpha because of exactly what 
patrick suggests, ithreads is not quite stable yet.  ithreads in 
5.8.0-tobe will be much better, but still has yet to be proven in a 
production environment with apache/modperl.

support for prefork is considered beta simply because ithreads 
(multiple interpreters in the same process) are not used.

the label of alpha/beta in the README has nothing to do with apache 
changing apis or what features have not been implemented in modperl-2.0.