[MTOS-dev] Roadmap and mod-perl/FCGI

[Timothy Appnel]

On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 7:26 PM, Jay Allen <jay at endevver.com> wrote:

>  Tim, I think the issue is this passage:
>
>  >This becomes very evident if the requires in the code are changed
>  > to use and moved to the header

It wasn't clear to me what the issues that they ran into with mod_perl
were. I thought Dave was under the impression that support and testing
of FastCGI and mod_perl doesn't happen because of the performance and
memory links that have cropped up to impact those of us running those
systems.

So to my knowledge (someone please correct me if I'm wrong) MT does
get tested under FastCGI though that testing may need to be reexamined
given recent events. Correct?

>  Moving all of the requires to use's would certainly unbalance the
>  current, well-tested module load order..

Yeah I blew over that one because I don't see it even being a
plausible solution and didn't give it another thought. As I think you
are saying, it would undermine the vast majority of installs that are
running MT via plain-old CGI for the benefit of a very small minority.
It would be nice to think that will change, but I don't have my hopes
up.

Perhaps there is a compromise though. If the mod_perl and FastCGI
handler were in a separate module that would only be loaded and
compiled when running under those environments, couldn't that routine
do a "use" of any modules when initialized so that the requires for
CGI users are generally ignored. (Warning: Perl internals and
especially mod_perl are not the strongest topic or me.)

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