On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Stas Bekman wrote: > Randy Kobes wrote: [ .. ] > > That's what I was thinking - sorry, I should have been clearer. > > ppm has a feature that, when one installs a ppm package, a script > > from some server can optionally be fetched and run (by Perl, or > > anything, actually). So what I could do for the Apache-Test ppm > > package we have is use such a script to get the needed files for > > the apxs script and run and install them (if the user wants) - > > that way, a person running an older httpd-2.0 could just ppm > > install Apache-Test from here, and apxs would also get installed [ ... ] > Thanks Randy, I did understand that. I was asking about those who try to > install from source, without using ppm.
Ah, I see now ... What could be done, within Apache-Test's Makefile.PL, is offer to get the same remote source and configuration files to install apxs that the ppm post-install script gets. This would be easier to maintain and upgrade, and plus wouldn't require adding additional files to the Apache-Test distribution. -- best regards, randy
