Re: New Windows mod_perl2/libapreq2 build available

Many thanks.
Nowadays, we tend to deal increasingly with Linux servers rather than Win32/64, but it is 
nice anyway that someone cares for this, as we still have some customers with legacy Win 
servers that they want to keep and update from time to time.
(And it is also nice for our development/support workstations).

We have quite a few real-world applications based on perl and mod_perl, which in 
themselves have been running reliably for years without any needed changes due to perl itself.
But we do get in trouble from time to time because customers insist on changing the 
platform on which these applications are running.

By the way, and in the somewhat OT gist of the discussions about perl's evolution, I feel 
that there is one argument about perl that is being consistently overlooked and/or 
undervalued :
The fact that applications written in perl many years ago (as much as 20 years sometimes), 
are still running unchanged today, despite numerous changes of versions, platforms, OS'es 
etc.. (*)
I do not think that there is *any* other current programming language (or "framework") 
which equals that record.

This may sound a bit like a "dinosaur" argument, but just think of all the  time and 
resources (and thus ultimately, money) which people programming in other languages have 
had to spend during the same period, just to keep the same things running, and you can get 
a measure of perl's "productivity" in comparison.

I totally understand the desire of some to modernise perl and make it more attractive to 
new generations of programmers. But it would be a shame if in the process, perl (5,7) lost 
this rather unique quality and positioning.

P.S. And of course, that longevity and stability of perl, is all to the credit of people 
like you, who have been supporting and maintaining it over the years, for (in my view) 
much too little public recognition and reward in the end.

(*) a bit more on topic : the most "traumatic" events in those many years as far as our 
perl programming was concerned, have been the changes from Apache 1.x to 2.0, and later 
the changes from 2.2 to 2.4 in terms of AAA. (So, not in perl itself, but in the way it 
interacts with Apache).
I think that nothing else really "registered", even over many OSes such as all the 
versions of Windows-es, SunOS, Solaris, HP/UX, AIX, Unix-es, Linux, to name only the few 
which I remember running our applications on. Applications of which we only ever needed 
one version, running everywhere.

On 05.03.2021 13:12, Steve Hay wrote:
> For those who are interested, I have uploaded a 64-bit build of
> mod_perl-2.0.11 and libapreq2-2.15 components compatible with Apache
> Lounge 2.4.46 (Win64, VC16, built 18 February 2021) and Strawberry
> Perl 5.32.1.1 (64bit).
> 
> You can download it from: https://people.apache.org/~stevehay/
> 
> The SHA1 digest is: 33e231eb91901007e25fd78eb5643901672c519b
> 
> Regards,
> Steve
>