Re: [Slashcode-general] Jumping in here late ... Slashcode is Dead ...

[Marc G. F. <sc...@hu...>]

On Mon, 21 Sep 2009, W. Scott Lockwood III wrote:

> The fact that almost _no one_ uses it in production anymore is kind of a 
> clue... Even _Debian_ has moved totally away from 1.x for Apache. I 
> realize that you guys don't care so much about the rest of us, as has 
> been stated several times by Rob on many different occasions and posts, 
> but at some point you guys will likely end up having to upgrade, right? 
> Is there any time frame or roadmap for that for /.? I'm really leery of 
> advocating a fork where it's really not necessary, and where the 
> community would gain no benefit

We'd lose more then gain, actually, as we'd have to build up a whole new 
community ... better to kick start what is there now, if we can ...

> but at the same time that's basically what we'd have to do in order to 
> get it working on Apache 2.x at this point.

Why?  Has anyone actually identified *why* the current code doesn't work 
under Apache 2.2?  Is it purely a mod_perl 1.x vs 2.x issue?  If so, we 
can probably work around that easily enough ...

> Support for databases that don't silently eat your data would be nice, 
> too, I.E. PostgreSQL.

I will sooooooo volunteer in that department ... I haven't seen the public 
repo yet, so this might not even be an issue over there ...

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