Re: ApacheCon BOF about Module Repository

2005-09-07 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Sander Temme wrote: One aspect of TCAHMAN that I hadn't covered in my original discussion is how to add modules from the repository to an existing Apache install. This would require a program, installed with the server, that can fetch the module code and run the build/install. We have

Re: ApacheCon BOF about Module Repository

2005-09-07 Thread Mads Toftum
On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 03:34:19PM -0500, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: Digging into C implies a serf-like http: client library, which is certainly less prevalant than perl itself. At least libwww is trivial to obtain, if not already bundled. Don't we need something like that in C anyway? iirc

Re: ApacheCon BOF about Module Repository

2005-09-07 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Mads Toftum wrote: On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 03:34:19PM -0500, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: Digging into C implies a serf-like http: client library, which is certainly less prevalant than perl itself. At least libwww is trivial to obtain, if not already bundled. Don't we need something like

Re: ApacheCon BOF about Module Repository

2005-09-06 Thread Sander Temme
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Folks, I have been meaning to follow up on this ever since that BOF, and am deeply annoyed that it has taken me this long. As a matter of fact, my memory of that BOF session has now faded to a considerable extent and I don't feel comfortable

Re: ApacheCon BOF about Module Repository

2005-09-06 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
Sander Temme wrote: For maximum compatibility, this tool would have to be written in C. Currently, apxs is a Perl program but you can't always count on the availability of Perl on the system, especially on Windows. The apxs++ tool would be available only when mod_so is available. Sorry

Re: ApacheCon BOF about Module Repository

2005-09-06 Thread Nick Kew
Sander Temme wrote: One aspect of TCAHMAN that I hadn't covered in my original discussion is how to add modules from the repository to an existing Apache install. This would require a program, installed with the server, that can fetch the module code and run the build/install. We have

Re: ApacheCon BOF about Module Repository

2005-09-06 Thread Randy Kobes
On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, Sander Temme wrote: Folks, I have been meaning to follow up on this ever since that BOF, and am deeply annoyed that it has taken me this long. As a matter of fact, my memory of that BOF session has now faded to a considerable extent and I don't feel comfortable even

ApacheCon BOF about Module Repository

2005-07-21 Thread Sander Temme
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 All who are at ApacheCon or are otherwise interested, I snatched a BOF slot tonight (Thursday the 21st) at 20:30 to discuss ideas for dealing with modules inside and outside the httpd distribution. This is so far just an idea... I named it