Re: mod_perl EC2 AMI's or other platform providers?

On 7/4/11 7:54 PM, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
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> On 4 Jul 2011, at 11:03, Tosh Cooey wrote:
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>> The only public AMI for EC2 setup with mod_perl I can easily find is an OpenSuse one from 2009.
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>> Services like Bitnami are a really nice platform for launching LAMP stacks, unfortunately the P is anything but Perl :(
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>> Is there a reason for the lack of plug'n'play mod_perl LAMP cloud service providers?  Or are there a ton that I just don't know about?
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> Glad you're happy with perl 5.8.8 and old, possibly buggy CPAN modules.
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I'm not happy, hence the complaining about the AMI from 2009.  But I'm 
glad you changed the subject from your first one, which is that I should 
build my own stack.

So basically you are saying (and only you, not a community voice) that 
in order to be a mod_perl developer one also needs to:

1) Build and optimize Apache.
2) Build and optimize MySql.
3) Build and optimize Perl+mod_perl.
4) Build and optimize a Linux server environment.
or
5) Have enough money to pay for all of the above.

I understand the Renaissance Man appeal, we all want to be da Vinci, but 
that's hardly practical when a good dev needs to know perl, JS, some JS 
library (ie. jQuery), HTML, and CSS.  And let's be honest, what hot 
admin who can do 1-4 above really wants to perfect their knowledge of 
CSS and JS?!

And to address Herr Schumacher, of course no mod_perl environment will 
be perfect, they will all need to be tweaked, but changing a startup.pl 
and adding needed modules is not the same as steps 1-4 above.

You could just say, "what you complain about seems to be a hole in the 
market" rather than trying to dismiss the need.

Tosh

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