On 07/02/2013 07:54, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: [snip]
I also wonder if this would have been different if the httpd project had offered an rpm or apt-get packages, for example? It seems like there will always be a significant lag between a new major.minor release and seeing it injected into the major distributions.
This has been the case for a while, and kinda makes sense, I think. I mean, would we build on the latest and greatest compilers, just because they had big new shiny features?
Probably not. We like stability in time-tested compilers. Same for many end-user sysadmins. Issac