On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 09:35:20AM +1100, Ian Holsman wrote: > Glenn wrote: > >I have some different ideas. One is to distribute APR with 1.3 so > >that modules developers could incrementally move their modules to APR. > > why can't you just link APR into your 1.3 module? I don't think there > would be any technical reason not to.
Because then I would have to require that APR be installed, which is a lot harder than just requiring say apache-1.3.30. Right now, most people do something like rpm -Uvh apache-1.3.29....rpm and things work. If APR were distributed with apache-1.3.30, then I could say "requires apache-1.3.30" and it would not be much of a stretch to have them install it. It should be possible for many modules to keep a single codebase for both Apache 1.3 and Apache 2.x, with minimal #defines around areas that manipulate BUFF vs filters and brigades. Right now, it is not. Cheers, Glenn
