On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 10:52:34AM -0700, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: > On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 10:47:10AM -0700, dean gaudet wrote: > > On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > > > what i perhaps should recommend is that a series of independent > > > libraries be created. > > > > > > e.g. libaprhttputil (i know it's a bit long). > > > > why? > > > > we don't link against libcstdio libcstring libcsyscalls libcsortnsearch > > ... > > > > the point of a library is that when you link against it, the linker will > > extract only the portions which are used. > > So, then we should go ahead and add stuff like HTTP client support to > apr-util? Where's the boundary line? Is there a limit to what can go > in apr or apr-util? -- justin
IMO, the boundary line is where a specific chunk of functionality is *huge*, it should go in its own library. HTTP client code is a very large task (to do it right). Otherwise, I'm fine with widely useful functionality going into APRUTIL. Cheers, -g -- Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
