[Catalyst] perl 5.8.0 vs. 5.8.1

[Matt S Trout]

On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 10:54:56AM -0800, Tim McIntyre wrote:
> 
> On Feb 14, 2006, at 5:07 AM, Matt S Trout wrote:
> 
> >>>Why bother? Production deployment under FastCGI should work fine  
> >>>on shared
> >>>hosting.
> >>
> >>Maybe he wants to use mod_perl.
> >
> >And "Why bother?", being as it was the sentence construction known in
> >english as a question, was an invitation to further comment of  
> >*why* he
> >would want to use mod_perl, surprisingly enough.
> 
> I'm kinda stubborn I guess and have it stuck in my head that it's the  
> best way to go.  Maybe I'll investigate FastCGI a bit more.  I do  
> like having access to the Apache life cycle though... hmm.

I used to, but I've found FastCGI is so much simpler and easier to work
with.
 
> Thanks for all the input but I still don't understand what  
> specifically is different from 5.8.0 to  5.8.1 that allows Catalyst  
> to run.  If it's just because of one of the bugs in 5.8.0 which one  
> is it?  Is there a new feature between those versions?  Was it  
> determined that 5.8.0 just wasn't worth the trouble so 5.8.1 is  
> required for no specific reason?

I think it was because various bits of charset handling were badly spannered
in 5.8.0, but I reserve the right to be wrong - I've been running 5.8.4+
only in production for quite some time.

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