On 09 Feb 2013, at 10:05 AM, Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jail...@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> Anyway, just my 2 cents: > > - providing packages, as already discussed in the list > ==> would ease distro update or end user installation We already provide packages for RPM based distributions, and have documented it too: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/platform/rpm.html The problem is that other major modules don't, and this delays adoption until they do. Subversion is a good example, while they have a number of people providing distributions, only Summersoft (that I know of) provides drop in replacement for the OS supplied subversion binaries, and the last release they packaged was for the v1.6 series. The other binaries have manual install steps, or deploy to strange non standard places, and this requires lots of documentation and education. You can't just drop the binaries into your internal yum repository and say "yum update", end users have to explicitly download a different package to what they're used to, and then fiddle with paths to get access to it, and this is a big barrier to adoption. Regards, Graham --
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