On May 24, 2017, at 7:05 AM, hw <hw at gc-24.de> wrote:> apache uses mod_perlmod_perl was dropped from Apache in 2.4, and Red Hat followed suit with RHEL 7.> But there is a package 'rh-perl524-mod_perl?.That must be someone?s backport. As someone who migrated a mod_perl based app off of mod_perl several years ago, I recommend that you do not use it, unless you have old mod_perl based software that you cannot migrate to newer technologies like FastCGI, Plack, etc. I hope this does not strike you as inconsistent with respect to my prior posts, since that would be to construct a false equivalence between abandoned software and maintained stable software that is getting no new features. Also, you speak of CGI. CGI is not at all the same thing as mod_perl. You use one or the other, not both together. You?d know it if you were using mod_perl.
Warren Young schrieb:> On May 24, 2017, at 7:05 AM, hw <hw at gc-24.de> wrote: >> apache uses mod_perl > > mod_perl was dropped from Apache in 2.4, and Red Hat followed suit with RHEL 7.What is it using instead? The rh-httpd24 does not seem to use a more recent version of perl.>> But there is a package 'rh-perl524-mod_perl?. > > That must be someone?s backport. As someone who migrated a mod_perl based app off of mod_perl several years ago, I recommend that you do not use it, unless you have old mod_perl based software that you cannot migrate to newer technologies like FastCGI, Plack, etc.Migrating it is one thing I need look into.> I hope this does not strike you as inconsistent with respect to my prior posts, since that would be to construct a false equivalence between abandoned software and maintained stable software that is getting no new features.Not at all --- the point is that software usually becomes abandoned once a more recent version becomes available.> Also, you speak of CGI. CGI is not at all the same thing as mod_perl. You use one or the other, not both together. You?d know it if you were using mod_perl.I never really cared what it?s using because it simply works. Only it doesn?t work on Centos because the perl version it uses is too old. Since I don?t want to rewrite the software, what else can I do but look for a way to get it to work before concluding that Centos is not suited for this purpose.
On May 24, 2017, at 9:38 AM, hw <hw at gc-24.de> wrote:> > Warren Young schrieb: >> On May 24, 2017, at 7:05 AM, hw <hw at gc-24.de> wrote: >>> apache uses mod_perl >> >> mod_perl was dropped from Apache in 2.4, and Red Hat followed suit with RHEL 7. > > What is it using instead?There are various options. We use mod_fcgid + Plack here. And atop that, Dancer, if you care. http://perldancer.org/ Join me on the Dancer ML if you want to talk further about it.>> I hope this does not strike you as inconsistent with respect to my prior posts, since that would be to construct a false equivalence between abandoned software and maintained stable software that is getting no new features. > > Not at all --- the point is that software usually becomes abandoned > once a more recent version becomes available.And that?s what we keep trying to tell you: in the RHEL/CentOS world, that simply is not the case, because there is a multibillion-dollar entity ensuring that it is not so. All hail the benefactors!