On Sat, Apr 20, 2024 at 12:38:20PM +0200, Ivan Zhakov wrote: > I would suggest separating APR in different libraries, while keeping them > in one project/source tree. > > Something like that: > - apr-2 > - apr-dbd-2 > - apr-dbm-2 > - apr-xlate-2 (?) > - apr-crypto-2 > - apr-xml-2 > - apr-ldap-2 > - apr-memcache-2 > - apr-redis-2 > > I want to clarify that I don't propose going back to apr-util time when APR > was splitted to separate projects: this proposal is only about libraries on > the disk.
Yes, exactly right. IIRC someone (Justin?) wrote a proposal on doing it like this which had rough consensus around the time we did the big merge combining APR+APR-util into a single tree. Anything "substantial" should be in a separate library, so library dependency chains like [app -> libapr-xml-X.so.X -> libexpat.so] are maintained, but isolated so that apps don't pull in libexpat. Open questions on where to draw the line, as to what goes in a separate library, and much more I'm sure. Regards, Joe
