Nicholas Wourms wrote: > max wrote: >> APR is the Apache Portable Runtime. APR-util is an addon package to APR >> containing non-core useful features. >> >> Both are required by Subversion. >> >> I have prototype packages installed on my machine right now. I'll make apr, >> then apr-util, sequentially available for review once my previous ITP (neon) >> has finished the review process. Meanwhile, I'm posting this ITP to solicit >> votes. > > Max, > > You are treading on another maintainer's domain,
Not at all. > as the apr runtime is part of Apache2. Part, yes. But a seperable and independently useful part. > Regardless of whether you agree or disagree with > Stipe's handling of apache, he's still the maintainer. No argument. > The last time I > heard, Stipe was still fixing serious bugs with the Apache2 server, > which I guess is why it isn't working yet on Cygwin. Right, so it may be a long time before apache2 for cygwin arrives. Why delay APR, just because a project it is closely associated with cannot be made available yet? If/when appropriate, I will cede maintainership. > Since you can just as easily build subversion with a > static apr, I don't see any need for this additional packaging. 1. Size - There are somewhere in the neighbourhood of 10 to 15 exes and dlls in subversion - silly to bloat the package. 2. Libtool denys linking a shared lib with a static lib - quite rightly in this case, since APR contains memory management code - duplicate copies of which in a process could get very messy. But most