Re: [Slashcode-general] Slashcode is dead, long live Slashcode?

[Axel B. <ab...@no...>]

Hi,

since my initial mails seems to have been moderated, I send it once
again from the address I'm subscribed with on this list:

On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 08:49:53AM -0400, Alexandre Leroux wrote:
> Here's my latest Slashdot journal entry, trying to get feedback in order 
> to make the best decisions for the future of my slashsite.
> 
> Don't hesitate to share comments! :-)

Not sure if you wanted comments here on the list or to your journal
entry. :-)

> http://slashdot.org/~Lord+Satri/journal/231231

I just posted the following comment there:

---snip---
I am, no, I was the last packager of Slashcode for Debian. Slashcode
is no more packaged for Debian, since it has two big problems:

It doesn't run with Apache 2.x and Apache 1.3 is no more present in
many Linux distributions. That's the main reason why it dropped out of
Debian, too. 5 years ago a mod_perl 2.0 patch has been posted on
Slashcode.com
<http://www.slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=04/02/19/2144259>, but it
seems as it never got incorporated by Slashcode and Slashcode
continued to evolve without Apache 2 compatibility. Two years ago
someone submitted a question what's the current state of Slashcode on
Apache 2
<http://www.slashcode.com/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=9782&note=&title=Slash+%26amp%3B+Apache2%2Fmod_perl2%2C+three+years+later%3F>,
but this submission seems still pending.

Slashdot.org btw. still runs on Apache 1.3. Probably for the very same
reason. They missed that train and I don't want to know what effort it
will be today, to move over to Apache 2.x. I expect that even when
Slashdot dies, it will die running on a prehistoric Apache 1.3.

The second big problem: There are no official stable releases since
many, many years. Only code out of the VCS repository. This also has
problems with security fixes. Statements like "all 2.x releases" are
affected usually aren't true and you have to check the code yourself
if it is affected or not. This drives every distributor crazy.

I don't know how I will proceed with my Slashsite. Probably use the
last official stable release 2.2.6 and see if I get it running with
Apache 2.2 somehow. Or hope that Slashcode will once run on Apache 2.2
out-of-the-box against all fears. But despite that I'm usually an
optimist, I don't expect this to happen.
---snap---

		Regards, Axel
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