At 08:10 AM 2/10/2005, Leif W wrote: >I'm just trying to understand where the breakdown is. A feature that people >want, the lack of which spawns a sloppy slew of incompatible workarounds, but >no one around to respond and code it or fix what's available. The strength of >Apache was always *nix, so why abandon security on *nix for the sake of >portability to Windows?
What gives you the impression that this has anything to do with alternate ports? What gives you the impression that Apache 1.3 "had this right"? You hit the nail on the head "A feature that people want" ... ... but apparently not badly enough to solve the puzzle? The Apache Software Foundation puts together code that folks want to create, it doesn't put together code that folks want to have created for them. Rather than bemoan the fact that something doesn't exist/is broken/isn't complete enough, they are welcome in any ASF project to offer issue + solution to their own itch. At least, when that solution in in the form of ASF Licensed code. >It's the natural impression given by first glance of the timeline of events, >not an accusation. Or is it just coincidence that someone (or many people) >lost interest in perchild and there's been noone to pick up the slack, and >other people just happened to want to increase portability to windows? Ding ding ding. Each developer has their own expertise(s) and scratches their own itch. There is no ombudsman who is saying "Oh, you can add that code, just as soon as you go mop up this code over here..." If you are suggesting that "OtherBill should be fixing Perchild to support Linux users and not off supporting Win32 users", well then, bite me :) Perchild will be fixed the moment someone wants to invest the time to fix perchild. There is no obstacle, there is also no volunteer. And several folks out there, rather than fix Perchild, have set out to do their own thing instead to create such features. Nothing stopping them from offering their own solution out there, nothing stopping them from contributing here. And so it is as it should be.
