At 01:02 PM 3/30/2005, Curt Arnold wrote:

>If apr-iconv is an implementation detail of apr_xlate, then I don't see the 
>significance of deprecating it.  Either it (or a replacement) is needed to 
>support apr_xlate on platforms that don't provide an iconv or apr_xlate needs 
>to be deprecated or removed.

We drop it.  Point users 'elsewhere'.  "Not Maintained Here"
sign on the door.  Tarball moves to archive.apache.org.  Perhaps
same for svn repository.

Obviously we want apr_xlate to point at -something- but the what
would no longer be apr_iconv.

>I assume that Subversion is actually using apr_xlate or they would not have 
>bothered with setting APR_ICONV_PATH.  Does httpd use apr_xlate?  
>If so, I don't see how you could deprecate apr_xlate or make it only available 
>on Unix platforms.

Well, subversion does use apr_xlate.  But this was actually reported
by our log4cxx devs, who tripped over the subversion copy when they
thought they were using their own build.

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