From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 12 07:43:40 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DD2B16A4CE; Thu, 12 May 2005 07:43:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp0.netlab.nec.de (smtp0.netlab.nec.de [195.37.70.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F85A43D6D; Thu, 12 May 2005 07:43:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Lars.Eggert@netlab.nec.de) Received: from europa.office (europa.office [10.1.1.2]) by smtp0.netlab.nec.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE219154FE; Thu, 12 May 2005 09:50:40 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [10.1.1.112] ([10.1.1.112]) by europa.office over TLS secured channel with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Thu, 12 May 2005 09:43:37 +0200 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v728) To: ports@freebsd.org Message-Id: <55B5C129-1BD5-4389-9B37-97913017D52A@netlab.nec.de> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=sha1; boundary=Apple-Mail-73-137662078; protocol="application/pkcs7-signature" From: Lars Eggert Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 09:43:35 +0200 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.728) X-OriginalArrivalTime: 12 May 2005 07:43:37.0761 (UTC) FILETIME=[4EED3910:01C556C6] X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 cc: Sergey Matveychuk Subject: HEADS UP: mod_perl2 API changes X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 07:43:40 -0000 --Apple-Mail-73-137662078 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Hi, your friendly mod_perl2 maintainer here: Maintainers of ports depending on www/mod_perl2, be advised that the API of revisions newer than RC3 - which is what we have currently in the ports tree - significantly change the API. Applications using the old API *will* break. I'm personally not too excited about a major API change during the release process; the mod_perl guys have this to say (http://perl.apache.org/docs/2.0/rename.html): > During a sequence of release candidates leading up to the official > release of mod_perl 2, in late December, 2004 there was > considerable discussion regarding the choice of namespaces for the > 2.0 API. The main concern expressed was that some of the Apache::* > modules used in mod_perl 2 had the same names as those in mod_perl > 1. After a lively and, at times, heated debate, a proposal was made > to rename parts of the mod_perl 2 API - see the thread at http:// > marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=111135037100002&r=1&w=2. This proposal was > subsequently voted on and then adopted. http://perl.apache.org/docs/2.0/rename.html has instructions on changing applications to work with the new API. There is an update to mod_perl2 RC5 in http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/ 79962, to help you test your updated ports against the new API. I'd like to update the mod_perl2 port in the future, once the dependent ports have grown support for the new API. Feel free to email me with comments. Lars PS: If your port supports mod_perl and not mod_perl2, now would be a good time to consider adding support. -- Lars Eggert NEC Network Laboratories --Apple-Mail-73-137662078--