Bug#199718: Addition of non-threaded perl to resolve problems with applications like interchange

[Dominic Hargreaves]

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.

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