On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 11:56 AM, William A. Rowe Jr. <wr...@rowe-clan.net> wrote: > Graham Leggett wrote: >> Paul Querna wrote: >> >>> I intend to roll a 2.3 alpha release on Wednesday November 11th. > > +1 > >>> I will bundle APR from the 1.4.x branch. (APR people should make a >>> release, but this shouldn't be a blocker for our own alpha releases). > > Major problem; don't do this. You are putting 1.4.x code into a release > which then ends up causing APR 1.4.0 to break its binary ABI rules. That > is just not kosher. Some README or release notes observing that the best > results can be obtained with a checkout and build of the as-yet-unreleased > apr 1.4.x trunk is sufficient. > > If you want to 'test the bundling' - use a released apr please?
No released APR works. Under our own versioning guidelines, we can and will break compatibilty inside 2.3.x, so I don't see the issue created by using a bundled APR. >>> I am almost 90% sure the release might fail due to various issues, but >>> we need to start cleaning those issues out. > > :) > >> Is there a need to bundle APR at all? > > Agreed +1 if APR is not bundled (this is alpha, after all). > If APR had a 1.4.0 released, it would be viable, but it doesn't.
