Re: [Openinteract-dev] Using FastCGI as development plaftorm

[Perrin H. <pe...@el...>]

On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 16:43 +1200, Sam Vilain wrote:
> In any case, a statement like that is pretty much handwaving.  Doing a
> custom build will merely give you a different set of problems to deal
> with.  I wouldn't knock the binary packages so much just on principle.

It's handwaving from experience.  The Bricolage project tried pretty
hard to make the Red Hat binaries of mod_perl work, and finally had to
give up because users kept on having mysterious problems that couldn't
be reproduced by developers.  We get the same thing on the mod_perl list
-- strange problem, gone when the user switches to their own build.

The issues probably stem from the fact that packagers for distributions
have to try to make a server that works for running every conceivable
project all at once.  They build in a lot more, or use DSO, or both.
It's not so different from the situation with the perl packages most
distros provide.  The one from Red Hat has threading and debugging
compiled in, which makes it about 15% slower than a perl built on the
same OS with all the defaults.

- Perrin