Re: [VOTE] APR versioning rules w.r.t. released snapshots

2009-12-18 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] William A. Rowe Jr. I realise I'm somewhat late for the party here. | Correct, it is internally labeled 1.4.0-dev. It is not externally (plainly | visible to the user) as an apr-dev. The artifact is httpd-2.3.4-alpha-deps.tar | | from the dev snapshot version bundled with httpd

Re: [VOTE] APR versioning rules w.r.t. released snapshots

2009-12-16 Thread Branko Čibej
William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: Branko Čibej wrote: Paul Querna wrote: On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 2:05 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wr...@rowe-clan.net wrote: Should apr_initialize and friends be programmed to go 'bang' and drop out with a stderr emit, if compiled against a

Re: [VOTE] APR versioning rules w.r.t. released snapshots

2009-12-16 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
Branko Čibej wrote: (And maybe it's just me, but I prefer debugging a consistent abort on start-up than a random abort because of ABI mismatch). True :)

[VOTE] APR versioning rules w.r.t. released snapshots

2009-12-15 Thread Joe Orton
Snapshots of the APR and APR-util 1.4.x trees have been distributed by as part of the httpd 2.3.4 alpha release. Should the APR project treat those snapshots as releases for versioning purposes? In other words, should we ensure future APR/APR-util releases maintain source and binary

Re: [VOTE] APR versioning rules w.r.t. released snapshots

2009-12-15 Thread Jeff Trawick
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Joe Orton jor...@redhat.com wrote: Snapshots of the APR and APR-util 1.4.x trees have been distributed by as part of the httpd 2.3.4 alpha release.  Should the APR project treat those snapshots as releases for versioning purposes?  In other words, should we

Re: [VOTE] APR versioning rules w.r.t. released snapshots

2009-12-15 Thread Joe Orton
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 03:05:29PM +, Joe Orton wrote: [ ] Yes [X] No I vote no: what other ASF projects ship has no bearing on API commitments made by the APR project. Regards, Joe

Re: [VOTE] APR versioning rules w.r.t. released snapshots

2009-12-15 Thread Nick Kew
On 15 Dec 2009, at 15:05, Joe Orton wrote: Please vote: [ ] Yes [ ] No [x] No The httpd distros (at least those with package managers) have been weaned off bundling APR. Time for httpd itself to catch up. In any case, this is not the responsibility of APR. -- Nick Kew

Re: [VOTE] APR versioning rules w.r.t. released snapshots

2009-12-15 Thread Paul Querna
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 7:05 AM, Joe Orton jor...@redhat.com wrote: Snapshots of the APR and APR-util 1.4.x trees have been distributed by as part of the httpd 2.3.4 alpha release.  Should the APR project treat those snapshots as releases for versioning purposes?  In other words, should we

Re: [VOTE] APR versioning rules w.r.t. released snapshots

2009-12-15 Thread Branko Čibej
Joe Orton wrote: Snapshots of the APR and APR-util 1.4.x trees have been distributed by as part of the httpd 2.3.4 alpha release. Should the APR project treat those snapshots as releases for versioning purposes? In other words, should we ensure future APR/APR-util releases maintain source

Re: [VOTE] APR versioning rules w.r.t. released snapshots

2009-12-15 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
Branko Čibej wrote: By the way, if the answer turns out to be no, then we can do the cryptoapi changes that were discussed in another thread for 1.4; and I was made aware of a patch to make pools friendlier to long-lived multithreaded applications which would be a nice-to-have (conceptually)

Re: [VOTE] APR versioning rules w.r.t. released snapshots

2009-12-15 Thread Ruediger Pluem
On 15.12.2009 16:05, Joe Orton wrote: Snapshots of the APR and APR-util 1.4.x trees have been distributed by as part of the httpd 2.3.4 alpha release. Should the APR project treat those snapshots as releases for versioning purposes? In other words, should we ensure future APR/APR-util

Re: [VOTE] APR versioning rules w.r.t. released snapshots

2009-12-15 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
Jeff Trawick wrote: On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Joe Orton jor...@redhat.com wrote: Snapshots of the APR and APR-util 1.4.x trees have been distributed by as part of the httpd 2.3.4 alpha release. Should the APR project treat those snapshots as releases for versioning purposes? In other

Re: [VOTE] APR versioning rules w.r.t. released snapshots

2009-12-15 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
Paul Querna wrote: On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 7:05 AM, Joe Orton jor...@redhat.com wrote: Snapshots of the APR and APR-util 1.4.x trees have been distributed by as part of the httpd 2.3.4 alpha release. Should the APR project treat those snapshots as releases for versioning purposes? In other

Re: [VOTE] APR versioning rules w.r.t. released snapshots

2009-12-15 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
Joe Orton wrote: On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 03:05:29PM +, Joe Orton wrote: [ ] Yes [X] No I vote no: what other ASF projects ship has no bearing on API commitments made by the APR project. You cannot ethically vote to release ASF software at one project and declare it not-released at

Re: [VOTE] APR versioning rules w.r.t. released snapshots

2009-12-15 Thread Jeff Trawick
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 1:58 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wr...@rowe-clan.net wrote: Jeff Trawick wrote: On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Joe Orton jor...@redhat.com wrote: Snapshots of the APR and APR-util 1.4.x trees have been distributed by as part of the httpd 2.3.4 alpha release.  Should the

Re: [VOTE] APR versioning rules w.r.t. released snapshots

2009-12-15 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
Joe Orton wrote: I am asking people to vote on whether the APR project considers that release of the ASF to be significant for APR library versioning purposes. That is a decision which can be made by the APR project, as we agreed in the other thread. And I've spelled out why this

Re: [VOTE] APR versioning rules w.r.t. released snapshots

2009-12-15 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
Jeff Trawick wrote: We disagree on whether or not the httpd 2.3.4 prereqs tarball constitutes an APR release. Leave it at that. Actually we don't disagree. Its an ASF release and not an APR release, and we all agree on that. I suggest that it's trivial to work around binary compatibility

Re: [VOTE] APR versioning rules w.r.t. released snapshots

2009-12-15 Thread Branko Čibej
I'm not going to cast a vote here because I think the vote is a) premature, b) not carried out in the proper forum. If we assume that any part of APR that's bundled with httpd does not constitute an APR release -- and note that we're talking about related projects within the ASF, not some random

Re: [VOTE] APR versioning rules w.r.t. released snapshots

2009-12-15 Thread Paul Querna
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 12:59 PM, Branko Čibej br...@xbc.nu wrote: I'm not going to cast a vote here because I think the vote is a) premature, b) not carried out in the proper forum. If we assume that any part of APR that's bundled with httpd does not constitute an APR release -- and note

Re: [VOTE] APR versioning rules w.r.t. released snapshots

2009-12-15 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
Paul Querna wrote: On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 12:59 PM, Branko Čibej br...@xbc.nu wrote: Specifically: if I build and install the APR from that bespoke httpd tarball, what does apr-1-config --version say? * If the answer is 1.4.0, the user will believe they just installed an APR

Re: [VOTE] APR versioning rules w.r.t. released snapshots

2009-12-15 Thread Branko Čibej
William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: Paul Querna wrote: On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 12:59 PM, Branko Čibej br...@xbc.nu wrote: Specifically: if I build and install the APR from that bespoke httpd tarball, what does apr-1-config --version say? * If the answer is 1.4.0, the user will believe

Re: [VOTE] APR versioning rules w.r.t. released snapshots

2009-12-15 Thread Branko Čibej
William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: Unfortunately the APR versioning rules do not tell the developer not to compile against or link to -dev, while this gives the user no indication of what they are doing to their APR installation. in that, you're correct. One would expect that developers do

Re: [VOTE] APR versioning rules w.r.t. released snapshots

2009-12-15 Thread Guenter Knauf
Joe Orton schrieb: Snapshots of the APR and APR-util 1.4.x trees have been distributed by as part of the httpd 2.3.4 alpha release. Should the APR project treat those snapshots as releases for versioning purposes? In other words, should we ensure future APR/APR-util releases maintain

Re: [VOTE] APR versioning rules w.r.t. released snapshots

2009-12-15 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
Branko Čibej wrote: William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: Unfortunately the APR versioning rules do not tell the developer not to compile against or link to -dev, while this gives the user no indication of what they are doing to their APR installation. in that, you're correct. One would expect

Re: [VOTE] APR versioning rules w.r.t. released snapshots

2009-12-15 Thread Paul Querna
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 2:05 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wr...@rowe-clan.net wrote: Branko Čibej wrote: William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: Unfortunately the APR versioning rules do not tell the developer not to compile against or link to -dev, while this gives the user no indication of what they are

Re: [VOTE] APR versioning rules w.r.t. released snapshots

2009-12-15 Thread Branko Čibej
William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: Branko Čibej wrote: William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: Unfortunately the APR versioning rules do not tell the developer not to compile against or link to -dev, while this gives the user no indication of what they are doing to their APR installation.

Re: [VOTE] APR versioning rules w.r.t. released snapshots

2009-12-15 Thread Bojan Smojver
On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 15:05 +, Joe Orton wrote: Should the APR project treat those snapshots as releases for versioning purposes? Without actually casting a vote (because doing so seems to be contentious in itself), I would say no. Generally speaking, APR folks don't have control over what

Re: [VOTE] APR versioning rules w.r.t. released snapshots

2009-12-15 Thread Branko Čibej
Paul Querna wrote: On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 2:05 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wr...@rowe-clan.net wrote: Branko Čibej wrote: William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: Unfortunately the APR versioning rules do not tell the developer not to compile against or link to -dev, while this gives the

Re: [VOTE] APR versioning rules w.r.t. released snapshots

2009-12-15 Thread Paul Querna
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 12:38 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wr...@rowe-clan.net wrote: [You are wrong, FWIW.  BadCA was one of the first adopters of the original crypto interfaces.  I don't know that it was ported to the current iteration of the crypto interface.]

Re: [VOTE] APR versioning rules w.r.t. released snapshots

2009-12-15 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
Branko Čibej wrote: Paul Querna wrote: On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 2:05 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wr...@rowe-clan.net wrote: Should apr_initialize and friends be programmed to go 'bang' and drop out with a stderr emit, if compiled against a x.y.0-dev release and run against x.y.*[1-9]? Or, at