Re: [cgiapp] Re: Trouble installing CA::Dispatch

[Michael Peters <suppressed>]

Timothy Appnel wrote:
> On 8/3/06, Michael Petnuch <suppressed> wrote:
> 
>> My suggestion.  Upgrade mod-perl.    Because Dispatch won't work with
>> that
>> version.
> 
> Slightly off topic here.
> 
> I had a similar experience with the Apache::Test tests failing in
> Dispatch. If I ignored those failures and just did an install
> everything worked fine to date.

But he's trying to use Dispatch under mod_perl. And once he upgrade Apache::Test
to the latest version the tests passed. But he won't be able to use it with that
not-real-pre-beta version of mod_perl that Debian chooses to ship since it's
fundamentally broken (incompatible with all Apache2 modules).

> Is it really necessary to have mod_perl to use Dispatch? The tests and
> the prerequisites seem to indicate so that it makes installation a bit
> involved. For instance, I've been using FastCGI more because of
> clients who don't want to run Apache. (don't shoot the messenger --
> that's what they insist on.) I understand Michael and others on the
> list use mod_perl frequently in their work, but it seems a bit out of
> place since Dispatch itself is applicable beyond the mod_perl
> environment. Perhaps I've missed something though.

You're right, Dispatch will work fine under normal CGI and as you've seen by
experience, FCGI too. The test suite does use Apache::Test to run the mod_perl
tests. If it doesn't skip them when you don't have Apache::Test installed then
that should be fixed. Patches are welcome, or even better, commit bits are free
from Jason Purdy.

 I'm currently pretty pretty slammed at $work with a major release and then I
have the Pittsburgh Perl Workshop and Apache Con to get ready for, not to
mention a 1.0 release of Smolder coming up... But if no-one else get's to it by
the time I have some free time, then I'll take a crack at it.

-- 
Michael Peters
Developer
Plus Three, LP


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