Greetings,

Other people reactions sum it up for me: speed, flexibility, Apache apis...
Except the last 2 are (I feel) liabilities for people which need to keep IIS and other webservers in view. So I write orderly CGI stuff that runs under mod_perl but will do its thing (if slowly) under IIS with vanilla CGI (and that's already nontrivial).

As for cross-platformness of Apache and friends - it is there, but only to a point. I have been recently badly bitten on the a... - well, you get the idea - by mod_perl being single threaded on Win32 - a fact that is very carefully buried under a ton and a half of carpets. Because I write to CGI.pm I narrowly escaped disaster - had I gone the full mod_perl way it would have been a very nasty situation.


Cheers,
alf

You can't have everything: where would you put it?

In reply to Re: How do you feel about mod_perl? by alien_life_form
in thread How do you feel about mod_perl? by princepawn

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