RE: PerlEx, running 5.10 and 5.12 in parallel

"Ludwig, Michael" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.perl.active-perl
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jan Dubois

> On Wed, 04 Aug 2010, Ludwig, Michael wrote:

> > In IIS, I have .plex mapped to the PerlEx30.dll shipped with AP
> > 5.10, and .p12x mapped to the one shipped with AP 5.12. So far,
> > looks like it works.

> > I'm wondering, however, whether this setup is supposed to work (for
> > development), or means running an unnecessary risk of things going
> > wrong?
> 
> Hi Michael,
> 
> I haven't tried this myself, but I think you will need to set up 
> separate application pools in IIS for the 2 different versions of 
> PerlEx.  The specifics will depend on the particular version of IIS 
> you are using, but there should be plenty of resources on the web 
> providing the details.
> 
> It is *possible* that things will work without this separation, but it 
> is generally a bad idea to load different versions of a DLL into the 
> same process unless the DLLs also have different names.  It *may* work 
> in this case because IIS will load PerlEx30.dll using the full path 
> name, and there are no further DLLs that need to resolve symbols from 
> this DLL.

Hi Jan,

thanks for your valuable feedback! I've got some clues and the right
keywords now in order to determine more accurately what to consider.
I only have a superficial configuration knowledge of IIS so far.

Best,
-- 
Michael Ludwig
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