Re: Funding [WAS :Re: trying to compile mod_perl against httpd-2.4.1]

> 2012/2/28 Vincent Veyron <[email protected]>:
> > I am a tiny one-man company using mod_perl with great success(*) and
> > pleasure, and your post has me very worried that it could end in a
> > hurry :-(

	I depend on mod_perl2 for nearly all the web sites that I maintain, 
and I've been trying to encourage others to use the same technology 
(it's more challenging with the hundreds of voices pushing PHP 
compared to my one voice promoting ModPerl, but I don't consider this 
a valid justification for discouragement).

	You probably also enjoy the efficient response times to HTTP clients 
and the direct server-side access to the API via APR, etc.  All this 
and the many other things that ModPerl provides is of tremendous 
worth in my strong opinion.

> Don't panic!  There's no immediate danger to mod_perl, and most people
> are not trying to run on the very latest versions of perl and apache.
> Even if mod_perl someday stops being developed for new versions of
> perl and apache, there will be no immediate need to move off it and
> plenty of alternatives available.

	That's re-assuring.  Thanks.

> > Can't the ASF dedicate some funds for that, to pay for your work?
> 
> No, that's not how the ASF works.  Coding is a volunteer effort.
> Money is spent on infrastructure like hosting.
> 
> > Also, I wonder what the big players who subscribe to this list think of
> > such a situation?
> 
> It's fine for people to make their own deals to sponsor developers.
> Some companies who need something will pay their own developers to
> build it.  Most likely, no one has needed this enough to develop it
> yet.  (Because they're all running apache 1.3...)

	The last time I used Apache HTTPd v1.anything on my servers was when 
I was hosting a few hundred web sites on Novell NetWare.  When I 
migrated to NetBSD there was Apache HTTPd v2.something and so I used 
the migration as an opportunity to perform the massive code upgrades 
to mod_perl2 (this was not a small effort, but it also wasn't overly 
complicated for the most part after getting used to the changes).

	I hear rumours from time-to-time that SlashDot continues to use 
mod_perl1, but considering that mod_perl2 has been available for so 
long now I always doubted it under the assumption that most people 
would have upgraded by now.

	Are a lot of people still using the version 1 series of httpd and/or 
mod_perl?

Randolf Richardson - [email protected]
Inter-Corporate Computer & Network Services, Inc.
Beautiful British Columbia, Canada
http://www.inter-corporate.com/