From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Aug 8 19:11:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from www.svzserv.kemerovo.su (www.svzserv.kemerovo.su [213.184.65.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78A1037B405 for ; Wed, 8 Aug 2001 19:11:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eugen@www.svzserv.kemerovo.su) Received: (from eugen@localhost) by www.svzserv.kemerovo.su (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA17107; Thu, 9 Aug 2001 10:11:02 +0800 (KRAST) (envelope-from eugen) Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 10:11:02 +0800 From: Eugene Grosbein To: Mark Murray Cc: Eugene Grosbein , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PERL_THREAD Message-ID: <20010809101102.A16418@svzserv.kemerovo.su> References: <3B6F5CF4.676788F4@svzserv.kemerovo.su> <200108071730.f77HU4Z54402@grimreaper.grondar.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200108071730.f77HU4Z54402@grimreaper.grondar.za>; from mark@grondar.za on Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 06:30:01PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 06:30:01PM +0100, Mark Murray wrote: > > 1. When PERL_THREAD be revived? > When it is properly stable in Perl (ie, when the perl developers > stop acting embarassed about it) > > 2. Why such serious change of functionality was done nearly silent? > Because as near as we could work out, threaded Perl was as close to > non functional as makes no difference, and on asking, we could find > no-one using it. Well, perhaps it is non functional for some tasks, but DBD::ODBC linked with Openlink's UDBC SDK runs perfectly. Anyway, there might be "HEADS UP" for such serious change. > You are the first user of threaded Perl that I am aware of. :-) We manually reversed patches that disable threaded perl and compiled recent 4-STABLE with PERL_THREAD=yes. Our service is restored and runs fine. > > Now we have solution of downgrading to RELENG_4_3 but what will be in the > > near future when RELENG_4_4 will be forked from RELENG_4_4_RELEASE if latter > > won't support PERL_THREAD? > Why don't you use the port? ports/lang/perl5 This is a workaround but quite expensive. Why having two copies of perl if perl 5.005 runs well? Eugene Grosbein To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message