On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 11:11 AM, William A. Rowe, Jr.<[email protected]> wrote: > Ivan Zhakov wrote: >> I cannot find Windows _source_ package for Apache 2.2.12. I mean zip >> archive like this >> http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/httpd-2.2.11-win32-src-r2.zip. >> >> Is Windows source package also unofficial? > > No, but it is derivative (because it requires we export the .mak files > from .dsp files, something a unix RM is ill prepared to do). > > Will have that up within the hour, just finished updating various > db libraries here, but it will take a number of hours to propagate > first to www.apache.org, and then to the mirrors. > Great to hear. I'm just afraid that we depend on something unofficial and Apache has different policy as other open-source projects.
> The project is contemplating new solutions to the build, including > scons, which would hopefully solve the problem of a platform dependency > for a particular source release. But that isn't expected until 2.4 > or 3.0 is released. > Yeah, building framework is headache. In Subversion we have complex python scripts to generate build files for different platforms. Btw what is your impression of scons? -- Ivan Zhakov VisualSVN Team
