perl FC3 update coming

Chip Turner cturner at pattern.net
Wed Jun 15 04:23:23 UTC 2005


Chris Grau <chris at chrisgrau.com> writes:

> On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 09:01:09PM -0400, Chip Turner wrote:
>> Warren Togami <wtogami at redhat.com> writes:
>> 
>> > Jose Pedro Oliveira wrote:
>> >> No.  Just trying to play safe: this may avoid CGI/mod_perl related
>> >> bugzilla entries from ppl that will upgrade the FC3 mod_perl 2 beta
>> >> version to the final version.
>> >> jpo
>> >>
>> >
>> > The way I understand it, we had mod_perl 1.99 for *years*.  Since 2 is
>> > incompatible, doesn't it make sense to keep FC3 compatible with 1.99?
>> 
>> 1.99 were all alphas/betas leading up to the 2.0 release.  What leads
>> you to believe it is incompatible?  There shouldn't be anything that
>> would break compatibility, except for bug fixes, which likely wouldn't
>> break anything.
>
> The mod_perl 1.999_23 (2.0.0rc5) release introduced a new, incompatible
> API.
>
>   http://perl.apache.org/docs/2.0/rename.html

How nice of them!  Boy that's gonna cause some headaches.

I'd just errata it in fc4 ASAP so that no one uses it before the
change hits :)

Chip

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Chip Turner                   cturner at pattern.net




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