Re: moose and mod_perl

On Tue, 16 Dec 2008, Stevan Little wrote:

> Honestly, I have no idea what that directive does, I never used it :)

It does this thing that breaks all your Perl code ;)

Seriously, never ever use it. It breaks way more than just Moose code, and 
it breaks shit in weird confusing ways.

> I suspect that effort would be better spent moving your old code away from 
> using it instead of trying to make Moose support it. I know that Moose works 
> with Module::Refresh (there are tests in the suite for it) and it did at one 
> point work with Apache::Reload as well (I haven't tested it against the 
> latest version as we have moved away from mod_perl at work and us mostly FCGI 
> now).

I would strongly object to any attempt to support FreshRestart. It's 
well-known to be totally broken. And as you point out, you can use 
Module::Refresh.


-dave

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