On Saturday 01 September 2001 20:10, Cliff Woolley wrote:
> Taking a step back from gz for a moment, and speaking in general:
>
> On Sat, 1 Sep 2001, Ian Holsman wrote:
> > 3rd party modules are invisible to most people,
>
> I'll agree with that statement... we can tell ourselves that it's okay to
> push off modules onto third-party distribution, but the fact is that if it
> doesn't come as a standard module, people are much less likely to go get
> it unless they have absolutely no other choice because they either are too
> lazy, don't know it exists, or fear its stability/security because it's
> third-party.
>
> Perhaps modules distributed through official httpd subprojects are more
> visible/more trusted, but we don't really know one way or the other on
> that front yet.
I can agree with this, but this is something we need to fix. There are many
ways to fix it. Fixing modules.apache.org would be a very good first step.
Putting every module into the core is NOT the answer to this problem. IMNSHO,
Apache should be a minamilistic web server. If we don't need it in the core,
it shouldn't be there. Personally, I would remove mod_dav from the server too,
because it doesn't implement part of RFC2616.
Ryan
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