On Sun. 2011-03-20 at 07:47 PM EDT, "William A. Rowe Jr." <wr...@rowe-clan.net> wrote:
> 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... > > [X] 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. For APR to continue bundling expat seems easiest, in the absence of anyone motivated to do something more. Dan