Re: [PATCH] Add mod_gz to httpd-2.0

[Justin Erenkrantz]

On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 01:36:18PM -0500, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote:
> I have no issue with dropping the current (and httpd-maintained) zlib, returning
> all patches to the authors.  If there are problems with threading support + leaks,
> we will need to fix them if we will call this 'supported'.  Same as we do for
> pcre and expat, which aren't as firmly established as the ASF or even the OpenSSL
> organization.  It adds some 160kb to the tarball, as distributed at zlib.org.

How about we drop in code that uses zlib first and see if there are
really problems with zlib?  If there are, attempt to create patches to 
send to the authors.  Then, if they don't care to address them, we 
check in and create our own zlib with our patches.

My point is that almost every OS comes with a copy of zlib now.  We
can't expect most people to have pcre and expat, but I think we can 
with zlib though.  I'd rather not build zlib if we didn't need to.  
The exception here is probably Win32 (which is why I think you want 
the source).  -- justin