Re: Future MPM Support?
Robert Smith <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.apache.mod-perl |
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Who in the world would want to abandon mod_perl? What is this world coming to? -Robert > On Jul 30, 2018, at 5:44 PM, André Warnier (tomcat) <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 30.07.2018 03:51, Paul B. Henson wrote: >> On Sun, Jul 29, 2018 at 04:18:54PM -0400, Paul Silevitch wrote: >>> Like Dr. James Smith, I'm hooking into multiple handlers and using filters. >> >> Yep, me too; Plack is really not a feature equivilent replacement for >> mod_perl :(. >> > +1. > Plack and other frameworks (TT2, Moose, Catalyst, etc.) cover the web application side, at different levels and in different ways. > But there is (to my knowledge) no equivalent for mod_perl's ability to interact deeply with the Apache internal Request processing logic. > In that respect, comparing mod_perl to Plack etc is like comparing apples to pears : not very relevant. > Considering that, for better or worse, Perl as a programming language does not seem to be really attractive to the current generation of software developers anymore, I would not really mind if some tool equivalent to mod_perl was developed using whichever other scripting language is currently more in fashion (javascript ? python ? ..), but it really seems a pity to "slowly abandon" mod_perl without providing some tool of equivalent power in terms of deep interaction with Apache httpd. > > >