On Sunday 19 August 2012, Roy T. Fielding wrote:
> > Partial answer: the current semantics of maintainer-mode is (per
> > configure help):
> > 
> > "Turn on debugging and compile time warnings and load all
> > compiled modules"
> 
> Umm, WTF?  Why?

One reason was to make it easier for httpd developers to run the perl 
test suite. Otherwise they would always have to enable all modules 
after a new make install (or not forget some additional configure 
option).

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