On Wednesday 19 September 2001 09:26 am, Sander Striker wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Ryan Bloom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: 19 September 2001 17:19 > > > > I would like to move APR to a releasable state finally. To do > > this, we need to > > finish the locking API at the very least. Does anybody have > > other issues that > > need to be resolved? > > > > Ryan > > Do we wish to keep or remove sms? > I realize a fair amount of time went into it, but performance > wise it didn't cut it (due to the extra indirection). There > might be applications for it, but right now it is only extra > baggage. Is anyone using sms currently, or planning to?
I would personally like to see it removed. I do think that an SMS-like implementation is a good thing, but I don't think what we have is quite it. I am very careful about putting an API into a released version of APR, because once it is there, it is there forever. > Other issues before release might be going over all the functions > one more time and check for consistency in argument ordering. > Changes to ordering have been postponed because the functions > were being used in httpd and elsewhere, but I think the release > should be as consistent as possible with respect to argument > ordering for ease of use. I realize this impacts a big ammount > of code, but still think it is worth it. If it is out there > there is no chance of changing the API anymore. I agree. This kind of thing needs to be done. If it can be done with a perl script, so much the better. Ryan ______________________________________________________________ Ryan Bloom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Covalent Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------
