Jeff Trawick wrote:
Just curious: does anybody in that boat actually think that anything we httpd-ers could do with packaging httpd (binaries, SSL,etc.) would conceivably compete with what our employers are providing? (I find that preposterous personally)
rofl - no. I will say this; the people who are wildly waving their arms "no more binaries" are the same people who, surprise, haven't contributed binaries to httpd, at least not lately (little surprise). Yes this affects win32, and solaris pkg's and rpm's and a whole lot of other things in /dist/httpd/binaries/... There are some platforms (e.g. Linux) where you always have a compiler, and it seems linux biggots are the loudest "no binaries!" camp. Then there are others where installing a compiler varies between argrivating (solaris) to expensive. If it's not "encumbered", why not distribute a binary someone is willing to build, as opposed to arguing over the merits of them. Of -course- if nobody cares to contribute a binary for platform Foo, such is life. Now nearly every major open source project that supports OS/X and Win32 ships binaries for OS/X and Win32, and some folks happened to have built those, and others. Oooh... I almost forgot, platforms where compilers come along and are still aggrivating to use ;-) Encumbered; e.g. who's built a binary that is sitting in dist that has -lssl -lcrypto? I'm betting quite a few, I just don't feel like tearing that tree apart this month. I think this is getting absurd, Roy says "don't ship binaries" as one extreme reaction (not in a negative context, but an observation) and all the aolusers chime in. Either binaries float your boat or they don't. Isn't the httpd project about scratching your own itch? Anyways, I've come to the conclusion that the httpd project's decided, based on a few voices today, that it will not ship openssl binaries in particular. How this differs from shipping libexpat, libz or libpcre binaries is beyond my grasp, other than some recordkeeping. But if that's concensus become policy, then I'm happy to ditch any effort to provide win32 users mod_ssl. You folks really aren't worth this aggrivation. Bill
