On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 02:37:09PM -0400, Philip S. Hempel wrote: > I presently use Interchange package and have found that the use of threaded > perl > has caused many problems with it.
... > I am asking that it be possible to create simular to what was done in 5.005's > perl-thread and add a perl-nothread to 5.8. On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 04:05:57PM -0500, William McKee wrote: > I would like to second the request for a non-threaded version of Perl > 5.8.x. I just upgraded to Sarge and am in the process of reloading my > modules via CPAN. I was surprised to see DBI complain that threaded Perl > is not supported in production environments. I would think that it'd be > safer to set Perl to be non-threaded by default since most applications > don't support threads yet (e.g., DBI, mod_perl). Hello all, Unfortunately nothing was done about this request back in 2003. My impression is that perl threads are significantly better supported days, and the work required to support non-threaded perls on Debian would not be justified. Unless anyone here disagrees, I'll plan to close this bug in a short while. Cheers, Dominic. -- Dominic Hargreaves | http://www.larted.org.uk/~dom/ PGP key 5178E2A5 from the.earth.li (keyserver,web,email) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
