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Re: 5.8.2 RC2
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From:
Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
Date:
November 3, 2003 19:31
Subject:
Re: 5.8.2 RC2
Message ID:
20031104033009.GA2976@efn.org
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 12:43:41PM -0800, Stas Bekman <stas@stason.org> wrote:
> Nicholas Clark wrote:
> > It's fun to charter an accountant
> > And sail the wide accountan-cy,
> > To find, explore the funds offshore
> > And skirt the shoals of bankruptcy.
> >
> > Accountancy Shanty - Eric Idle/John Du Prez
> >
> >I was hoping to avoid release candidate two, but there have been a few
> >significant tweaks since RC1. Notably
>
> [...]
>
> >1: Stas Bekman has worked tirelessly to figure out how I broke mod_perl,
> >and
> > we both think that it's all working now.
>
> I must say that it wasn't Nick who broke mod_perl 2.0, but its only the
> fault of mod_perl which gets too deep into the perl guts and uses
> undocumented APIs, to get the best (thanks to Doug!) performance possible.
> So it's us who must thank Nick, for taking time to help to adjust mod_perl
> 2.0 guts to work with 5.8.2.
I haven't even so much as glanced at the actual code in question, but
all through this discussion I've wondered: if they have such an
intimate relationship with the perl API, why aren't these lightweight
gvs implemented in the perl core? (complete with tests...)
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