I'm ignoring your problems on Win32, because I don't know enough about it.

Fedora comes with Apache 2 and even mod_perl pre-installed. However, HTML::Mason won't work with Apache2 and neither will Apache::Template, the closest alternative.

One thing to note, is that mod_perl for Apache2 is still beta. I don't know why FC doesn't come with Apache 1.3 anyway, because on linux, the advantages of Apache 2 (threads) are hardly worth the upgrade, IMO. At the very least it should offer both apache 2 and apache 1.3.

Anyway, in the past I've had enough trouble with the standard (pre - 2.0) mod_perl rpms from RedHat that I always build my own binaries there.

Re-installing Apache to get 1.3 is non-trivial for me and in any case doesn't address the real issue: the Perl web development community, rather than just doing their own thing (mod_perl, Mason, Template::Toolkit), need to seriously address usability.

What usability are you talking about? You haven't installed anything yet. I run debian, and doing apt-get install apache-perl will install a nice apache 1.3 binary with mod_perl, which just works (tm).

Running perl -MCPAN -e'install Apache::Request' also works automatically.

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In reply to Re: Why can't mod_perl+Mason just work? by Joost
in thread Why can't mod_perl+Mason just work? by gunzip

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