From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 12 08:43:59 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 038AC16A4CE; Thu, 12 May 2005 08:43:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp0.netlab.nec.de (smtp0.netlab.nec.de [195.37.70.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1760143D6A; Thu, 12 May 2005 08:43:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Lars.Eggert@netlab.nec.de) Received: from europa.office (europa.office [10.1.1.2]) by smtp0.netlab.nec.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D0F7D96D; Thu, 12 May 2005 10:51:00 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [10.1.1.112] ([10.1.1.112]) by europa.office over TLS secured channel with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Thu, 12 May 2005 10:43:57 +0200 In-Reply-To: <428315C9.9090500@FreeBSD.org> References: <55B5C129-1BD5-4389-9B37-97913017D52A@netlab.nec.de> <428315C9.9090500@FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v728) Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=sha1; boundary=Apple-Mail-76-141280741; protocol="application/pkcs7-signature" Message-Id: <390642D6-0728-4485-8F62-4A18310A74CD@netlab.nec.de> From: Lars Eggert Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 10:43:53 +0200 To: Sergey Matveychuk X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.728) X-OriginalArrivalTime: 12 May 2005 08:43:57.0074 (UTC) FILETIME=[BC348F20:01C556CE] X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 12 May 2005 12:23:55 +0000 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 cc: hcoyote@ghostar.org cc: dom@happygiraffe.net cc: tcornpropst@cox.net cc: mat@FreeBSD.org cc: toni.viemero@iki.fi cc: skv@FreeBSD.org cc: apeiron@comcast.net cc: nistor@snickers.org cc: ports@freebsd.org cc: kvs@pil.dk cc: autrijus@autrijus.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: mod_perl2 API changes X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 08:43:59 -0000 --Apple-Mail-76-141280741 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed On May 12, 2005, at 10:37 , Sergey Matveychuk wrote: > Lars Eggert wrote: >> your friendly mod_perl2 maintainer here: >> Maintainers of ports depending on www/mod_perl2, be advised that >> the API of revisions newer than RC3 - which is what we have >> currently in the ports tree - significantly change the API. >> Applications using the old API *will* break. I'm personally not >> too excited about a major API change during the release process; >> the mod_perl guys have this to say (http://perl.apache.org/docs/ >> 2.0/rename.html): > > These ports will be affected (read: broken) > list with maintainers: Thanks for the list! Note that some other ports that do not explicitly list mod_perl2 as a dependency include code that uses it if installed. These will also break. Based on my own experience, this includes at least www/twiki and devel/cvsweb3. I'm sure there are others, but I have no clue how to identify them all. Lars -- Lars Eggert NEC Network Laboratories --Apple-Mail-76-141280741--