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On 2008-03-04, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Thanks.  I didn't submit this because I couldn't fix the bugs in it.
>> Glad you found it.  I had to make many changes in a similar vein with a
>> current gitweb version; did it work for you in its current form?
>
> I couldn't test it with FastCGI server, as I use Apache2, and all
> FastCGI modules for Apache are third part modules. Besides, it doesn't

On Debian, this was as easy as apt-get install libapache2-mod-fcgid

> make much sense to use generic FastCGI for Perl, when there is mod_perl
> module.

Sure it can.  I currently am running both Python and Ruby code under
FastCGI.  Adding mod_perl for just one program increases my
webserver's memory footprint, potentially dramatically, and increases
my complexity as well.  I'd much rather run FastCGI than mod_perl.