The 1.5 apr-util (and apr) branches are actively maintained. You have forward binary compatibility since 1.0 used in the early 2.1-dev days. Because 1.4.x was not receiving attention (and was missing new API's used for httpd-2.4) the project determined it would bundle 1.5 rather than the now-stale 1.4 apr project releases.
So in terms of hitting a maintenance branch, 1.5 is now exactly that, and the patch that broke C89 compilers was for maintenance, to clean up the errors present on P64 and LP64 architectures. "Wang, Andy" <aw...@ptc.com> wrote: >On Wed, 2014-09-03 at 09:27 -0700, wr...@rowe-clan.net wrote: >> Finally returned to VC6, having replaced my older svn on Windows >> which would no longer handshake with svn.apache.org and bumped into >> a single issue. >> >> Building VC6 binaries for win32, I was bitten by r1508904 which >> introduces >> a C99 type prior to releasing apr 2.0 (probably not a good idea to >> make >> such changes in a maintenance branch). > >I don't mean to tangent this discussion too much but I'm curious. > >So this change back in 2.2.26(?) was what finally made me start to use >visual studio 2010 for our windows builds (and boy is that an ugly >mess). > >Is there a reason why you're sticking with VC6 to build? > >I was surprised that this change made it into a maintenance branch, but >honestly was looking for something to push me to building on VC2010. > >Thanks, >Andy
