Nobody has offered a reasonable response, let's try this again... the
availability of pcre and expat are generally a both-or-neither proposition
on most distributions. Ergo, any one of the following resolutions would
restore logically consistency to the next-generation distribution...
[ ] apr 2.0 should resume bundling expat 2.0.1 fork[1]
[ ] expat helpers should be dropped from apr 2.0,
while httpd should assume an ap_ interface to expat
with expat distributed with httpd-deps
[ ] expat helpers should be dropped from apr 2.0,
in favor of direct consumption of expat 2.x by httpd,
with expat distributed with httpd-deps
[ ] httpd will ship expat in srclib/apr/xml
in spite of apr project decisions
[ ] httpd-deps should drop pcre
[ ] httpd-deps should be dropped
Simple majority, will re-offer this vote with the lowest vote getter dropped
until we have consensus. Votes please?
[1] Note particularly that expat appears to be abandoned, no releases in almost
4 yrs, with a significant security issue hanging over it we patched in apr.
No effort appears to be expended in providing any alternate non-expat
apr_xml
interfaces.
