Re: [patch] Apache2->unimport

Stas Bekman wrote:
> I was thinking that some modules will need to make sure not to pick 2.0 
> modules, when they work in 1.0 mode (e.g. Apache::Test), because if 
> Apache2 is inadvertenly loaded the wrong module versions will be picked. 

is this really an issue?  I mean, if you're using 2.0 and you use Apache2 
then you're ok.  if you're using 1.0 then Apache2 isn't an option (it's not 
available) so you still find the right libraries.  even something like 
Apache::Filter seems to be ok here - if you load Apache2 then it checks 
Apache2/ first, picking up the right version, whereas in 1.0 it doesn't 
check Apache2/ at all.

at first I thought you were right, and I was going to suggest porting 
Apache2 (with unimport) to 1.0.  then I thought about what circumstances 
someone in 1.0 would want to use it and couldn't see the validity - 1.0 
works just fine, and the Apache2 trick was born exactly so 1.0 would 
continue to work without intervention.

> e.g. Apache::Test may pick up httpd-2 as the default if it succeeds to 
> require Apache::Build.

that sounds like a bug.  personally, I'm really irked by any 2.0 defaults in 
Apache::Test.  I've been using it for 1.0, well, since it was made available 
and it's works very nicely there, but to have people always assume I'm 
talking about 2.0 (Apache or mod_perl) is really annoying - it should really 
be a generic test platform.

--Geoff