Hi,
> 2) Unlike the Unix world, and I wish this were not the case for us,
> NetWare does not have an open development environment. Our tools such as
This is the official statement of Novell;
but Pavel has done very good work; and the gcc compiled Apache seems to be as stable
as the CodeWarrior build; so we can look forward that we will get soon a stable open
development for NetWare; and I am working on it to get more support from Novell; I got
some positive replies; and first signs are there: preludes for gcc...
> Code Warrior cost money and are not widely available. Due to this fact we
> can not expect the average user to download, build and install Apache from
> source. Our users depend on prebuilt binaries that will work in all
> NetWare configurations. To my knowledge, and I hope I am wrong, there are
> only a hand full of developers that have actually downloaded the source
> and built it for NetWare in comparison to a relatively large number of
> NetWare users that have downloaded the binaries and are either playing
> with it or deploying it. BTW, Apache 1.3.20 will be shipping with NetWare
> 6 so this relatively large number will grow even larger soon.
Unfortunately Brad is absolutely right with this;
and all he mentioned was the reason why I made my page with the binaries, and the
downloads show that many are interested in getting the latest development versions...
This is also the reason why Pavel tried to make the binaries compatible: Novell does
not release the sources of their own Apache modules; so we have no chance to use
module binaries build by Novell; and we cannot expect that Novell build them twice,
one with CW and one with gcc.
Also I speak here explicitly about Novell, and not about Brad!!
I'm now fighting about 1,5 years with Novell that they push back their Perl ports to
CPAN!!
In addition to what Brad said we should explain for the others that NetWare
development is always done on other platforms; no compiler runs on NetWare os yet; so
most development is done on Win32 platform; a bit on DOS with older compilers; and
since Pavel's success also now with gcc on Win32 and Linux.
Guenter.
