authn/authz - 2.0/2.1 split

2002-08-31 Thread Martin Kutschker
Hi! Here comes my point which ist that of an outsider/user. Yes, breaking compatibily sucks, so I'd say 2.1 seems like a god idea. But from what I read here it is just now wort the hassle. Why? The installed userbase of 2.0 is not large enough (with missing PHP/perl support and still evolving

Re: 2.0/2.1 split?

2002-08-30 Thread alex
On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 11:10:27AM -0500, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: > I don't think we have enough -user- community to continue development > on any Apache 2.x. UNLESS we reconsider what we are doing wrong. > Breaking our users on every bugfix/point release would be a good start. > Seeing the

Re: what's the hubbub? (was: Re: 2.0/2.1 split)

2002-08-30 Thread Jim Jagielski
William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: > > At 04:22 PM 8/30/2002, Jim Jagielski wrote: > >Ian Holsman wrote: > > > > > > what we need most is a stable tree for a couple of months not spliting > > > out to a 2.1 tree > > > >++1 > > So... for the next couple months, we grind new ideas and development > to a

Re: what's the hubbub? (was: Re: 2.0/2.1 split)

2002-08-30 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
At 04:28 PM 8/30/2002, Marc Slemko wrote: >On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Ian Holsman wrote: > > > exactly, > > this talk of 2.1/branching etc is very premature. > > if you think your going to destablize the tree, then do your changes on > > a copy of the file.. and when your done just overwrite the old one

Re: what's the hubbub? (was: Re: 2.0/2.1 split)

2002-08-30 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
At 04:22 PM 8/30/2002, Jim Jagielski wrote: >Ian Holsman wrote: > > > > what we need most is a stable tree for a couple of months not spliting > > out to a 2.1 tree > >++1 So... for the next couple months, we grind new ideas and development to a halt (as things were when I got here in the spring

Re: what's the hubbub? (was: Re: 2.0/2.1 split)

2002-08-30 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 02:35:59PM -0700, Ian Holsman wrote: > EXACTLY. > branch your code, make it work, merge it back. > rinse repeat. > what could be simpler than this ? > as long as your merge is done quickly (1-2 weeks) and is well-defined > you should be good to go. Um, in this case, the co

Antw: RE: 2.0/2.1 split?

2002-08-30 Thread Andre Schild
>I think this is an important fact which then stops many >users from updating to Apache2 because of missing their favorite modules... >All platforms which mainly use binary distributions such as Win32 and Netware are affected... As we are using Apache 2.x on Win32 and Linux I'm just affected by

Re: what's the hubbub? (was: Re: 2.0/2.1 split)

2002-08-30 Thread Ian Holsman
Marc Slemko wrote: > On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Ian Holsman wrote: > > >>exactly, >>this talk of 2.1/branching etc is very premature. >>if you think your going to destablize the tree, then do your changes on >>a copy of the file.. and when your done just overwrite the old one. > > > In preference t

Re: 2.0/2.1 split was Re: authn/authz split

2002-08-30 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: > I don't think we have enough of a community to continue active > development on two separate (but similar) trees. I don't want to > start 2.1 and still see everyone adding features to 2.0. -- justin Why not do a tiny temporary branch just for t

Re: what's the hubbub? (was: Re: 2.0/2.1 split)

2002-08-30 Thread Marc Slemko
On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Ian Holsman wrote: > exactly, > this talk of 2.1/branching etc is very premature. > if you think your going to destablize the tree, then do your changes on > a copy of the file.. and when your done just overwrite the old one. In preference to doing that, just create a tempo

Re: what's the hubbub? (was: Re: 2.0/2.1 split)

2002-08-30 Thread rbb
++1. Ryan On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Jim Jagielski wrote: > Ian Holsman wrote: > > > > what we need most is a stable tree for a couple of months not spliting > > out to a 2.1 tree > > > > ++1 > > -- ___ Ryan Bloom

Re: what's the hubbub? (was: Re: 2.0/2.1 split)

2002-08-30 Thread Jim Jagielski
Ian Holsman wrote: > > what we need most is a stable tree for a couple of months not spliting > out to a 2.1 tree > ++1 -- === Jim Jagielski [|] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [|] http://www.jaguNET.com/ "A society t

Re: what's the hubbub? (was: Re: 2.0/2.1 split)

2002-08-30 Thread Cliff Woolley
On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Ian Holsman wrote: > this talk of 2.1/branching etc is very premature. > what we need most is a stable tree for a couple of months not spliting > out to a 2.1 tree Agreed. --Cliff

Re: what's the hubbub? (was: Re: 2.0/2.1 split)

2002-08-30 Thread Ian Holsman
Greg Stein wrote: > On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 11:00:49AM -0700, Brian Pane wrote: > >>Justin Erenkrantz wrote: >>... >> >>>I honestly don't care where this ends up. It just needs to get >>>in to our tree somewhere. The aaa code is broken. It needs to >>>be fixed (and I believe the patches we alr

RE: 2.0/2.1 split?

2002-08-30 Thread Günter Knauf
> Seems that everyone is killing his brains out, but we still have only > 6500 upgrades from 1.3.x. One of them is the guy from Germany that is > running 2.0.18 for more than a year. sure; and this will probably never change till the Apache2 APIs become somewhat more stabilized. What I mean is th

what's the hubbub? (was: Re: 2.0/2.1 split)

2002-08-30 Thread Greg Stein
On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 11:00:49AM -0700, Brian Pane wrote: > Justin Erenkrantz wrote: >... > >I honestly don't care where this ends up. It just needs to get > >in to our tree somewhere. The aaa code is broken. It needs to > >be fixed (and I believe the patches we already have start the > >proc

Re: 2.0/2.1 split was Re: authn/authz split

2002-08-30 Thread Brian Pane
Justin Erenkrantz wrote: >On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 10:17:52AM -0700, Aaron Bannert wrote: > > >>No, that's exactly the problem we have with 1.3 right now. There *are* >>people who are willing to backport fixes and even features to the 1.3 >>tree, it's only a faction of the group here that *doesn

Re: 2.0/2.1 split was Re: authn/authz split

2002-08-30 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 10:17:52AM -0700, Aaron Bannert wrote: > No, that's exactly the problem we have with 1.3 right now. There *are* > people who are willing to backport fixes and even features to the 1.3 > tree, it's only a faction of the group here that *doesn't* want that to > happen. I see

Re: 2.0/2.1 split was Re: authn/authz split

2002-08-30 Thread Aaron Bannert
On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 08:43:33AM -0700, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: > I dislike backporting things. I think we all need to be on the 'same > version.' Heck, we have committers who refuse to use 2.0 ("it's not > portable"). If we go to 2.1, then I want to see 2.0 closed for > anything other than

RE: 2.0/2.1 split?

2002-08-30 Thread Mladen Turk
> -Original Message- > From: William A. Rowe, Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 6:10 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: 2.0/2.1 split? > > I don't think we have enough -user- community to continue development > o

Re: 2.0/2.1 split?

2002-08-30 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
At 10:43 AM 8/30/2002, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: >On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 09:54:45AM -0500, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: > > It's time for a 2.1-dev tree, if we want to be playing with new ideas, > guys. > > If they test out clean and don't break compatibility [in any significant > > way] > > then

2.0/2.1 split was Re: authn/authz split

2002-08-30 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 09:54:45AM -0500, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: > It's time for a 2.1-dev tree, if we want to be playing with new ideas, guys. > If they test out clean and don't break compatibility [in any significant > way] > then they can be backported to 2.0. I dislike backporting thing