At 9:53 PM -0400 9/3/01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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>That's right.... and one of them is...
>
>Will Apache accept ZLIB into the Apache source tree in either
>source or binary library format for all platforms.
>
>Check one box only...
>
>[__] Yes
>[__] No
>
Actually, it's not a binary answer... Since Yes implies that the
ASF would accept binary library, which ain't the case, and No implies
that we wouldn't accept source, which may not be....
zlib is a very large chunk of code, and we resist requiring external
code unless:
1. It's small
2. It's very stable (ie: don't have to keep updating it all the
time, nor worry about passing patches back).
3. It's used by a large chunk of the Apache code (eg: regex).
Does zlib fit the bill?? Well, not for #1 and not really for #3...
Does that mean we'd never consider it... I'm not willing to say so.
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