Combining APR and APR-Util

2009-03-24 Thread Paul Querna
Hi, At ApacheCon, we have had a discussion about APR 2.x and APR-Util. In the short term, we would like to merge the two libraries, into one monolithic giant APR 2 library. In the long term, we would like to split out things that add extra dependencies to their own sub-libraries. What I am

[VOTE] LDAP in APR 2.x?

2009-03-24 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
So, during the conversations we've had here in Amsterdam regarding combining APR and APR-util (see post from Paul), one of the big stumbling blocks has been our treatment of the LDAP interfaces via APR-util. The crux of the issue is that it is a 'leaky' abstraction - in that, APR-util does not

Re: [VOTE] LDAP in APR 2.x?

2009-03-24 Thread Paul Querna
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Justin Erenkrantz jus...@erenkrantz.com wrote: Therefore, the consensus of the folks here is that we should pursue one of the following courses of action: [ ] Fix the LDAP interface to be a complete/full LDAP abstraction [X] Remove the LDAP interfaces from

RE: Combining APR and APR-Util

2009-03-24 Thread Bing Swen
Paul Querna p...@querna.org wrote on Tuesday, March 24, 2009 6:22 PM In the short term, we would like to merge the two libraries, into one monolithic giant APR 2 library. This is very good for simplifying the updating of the library. What about apr-iconv? It still has a reduced function set

Re: Combining APR and APR-Util

2009-03-24 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Bing Swen bs...@pku.edu.cn wrote: This is very good for simplifying the updating of the library. What about apr-iconv? It still has a reduced function set of libiconv prior to 2000. When we've brought this up in the past, I believe we felt that apr-iconv

Re: [VOTE] LDAP in APR 2.x?

2009-03-24 Thread Graham Leggett
Justin Erenkrantz wrote: So, during the conversations we've had here in Amsterdam regarding combining APR and APR-util (see post from Paul), one of the big stumbling blocks has been our treatment of the LDAP interfaces via APR-util. The crux of the issue is that it is a 'leaky' abstraction -

Re: [VOTE] LDAP in APR 2.x?

2009-03-24 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Graham Leggett minf...@sharp.fm wrote: Development of APR doesn't happen via conversations in Amsterdam. Of course not, that's why I posted. The clear consensus here in the room is that the current approach to LDAP is broken and ill thought-out (for the reasons

Re: [VOTE] LDAP in APR 2.x?

2009-03-24 Thread Graham Leggett
Jeff Trawick wrote: any counter-knowledge/opinions on the following? assert(only httpd uses apr LDAP) Can you cite references to show this is so? I would be very hard pressed to assert that functionality that has been available in APR for many years would have just one single user.

Re: Combining APR and APR-Util

2009-03-24 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Mar 24, 2009, at 6:46 AM, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Bing Swen bs...@pku.edu.cn wrote: This is very good for simplifying the updating of the library. What about apr-iconv? It still has a reduced function set of libiconv prior to 2000. When we've brought

Re: [VOTE] LDAP in APR 2.x?

2009-03-24 Thread Graham Leggett
Justin Erenkrantz wrote: Of course not, that's why I posted. The clear consensus here in the room is that the current approach to LDAP is broken and ill thought-out (for the reasons I illuminated), but what there isn't consensus on is how to proceed. Hence, the discussion on-list about how to

Re: [VOTE] LDAP in APR 2.x?

2009-03-24 Thread Sander Striker
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Graham Leggett minf...@sharp.fm wrote: Justin Erenkrantz wrote: Of course not, that's why I posted. The clear consensus here in the room is that the current approach to LDAP is broken and ill thought-out (for the reasons I illuminated), but what there isn't

Re: [VOTE] LDAP in APR 2.x?

2009-03-24 Thread Ruediger Pluem
On 24.03.2009 12:33, Graham Leggett wrote: Jeff Trawick wrote: any counter-knowledge/opinions on the following? assert(only httpd uses apr LDAP) Can you cite references to show this is so? I would be very hard pressed to assert that functionality that has been available in APR for many

Re: [VOTE] LDAP in APR 2.x?

2009-03-24 Thread Jeff Trawick
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Graham Leggett minf...@sharp.fm wrote: Jeff Trawick wrote: any counter-knowledge/opinions on the following? assert(only httpd uses apr LDAP) Can you cite references to show this is so? I would be very hard pressed to assert that functionality that has

Re: [VOTE] LDAP in APR 2.x?

2009-03-24 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Jeff Trawick wrote: I feel like voting for Fix the LDAP interface... but I don't see anybody caring but httpd, and the widespread use of Linux/OpenLDAP for developing the apps in our space has made this an unstrategic problem to solve. I agree, it seems apr_ldap can be entirely in

Re: Combining APR and APR-Util

2009-03-24 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Bing Swen wrote: Paul Querna p...@querna.org wrote on Tuesday, March 24, 2009 6:22 PM In the short term, we would like to merge the two libraries, into one monolithic giant APR 2 library. This is very good for simplifying the updating of the library. What about apr-iconv? It still has a

Re: [VOTE] LDAP in APR 2.x?

2009-03-24 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Graham Leggett wrote: This vote is completely premature. What was supposed to happen is that a discussion be kicked off **on the mailing list**, so that people fully understand why the LDAP abstraction is as it is, and in turn people can come up with a properly thought out way forward to

Re: Combining APR and APR-Util

2009-03-24 Thread Issac Goldstand
Paul Querna wrote: Hi, At ApacheCon, we have had a discussion about APR 2.x and APR-Util. In the short term, we would like to merge the two libraries, into one monolithic giant APR 2 library. In the long term, we would like to split out things that add extra dependencies to their own

Re: [VOTE] LDAP in APR 2.x?

2009-03-24 Thread Issac Goldstand
[ ] Fix the LDAP interface to be a complete/full LDAP abstraction [X] Remove the LDAP interfaces from APR

Re: [VOTE] LDAP in APR 2.x?

2009-03-24 Thread Graham Leggett
William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: We've actually discussed this on list for several years, and your comments for years have been 'yea, that's on me, I aught to fix that'. Now that some folks would like to move forwards towards completing APR 2.0, there will be more of these sorts of votes. A far

Re: [VOTE] LDAP in APR 2.x?

2009-03-24 Thread Paul Querna
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Graham Leggett minf...@sharp.fm wrote: William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: We've actually discussed this on list for several years, and your comments for years have been 'yea, that's on me, I aught to fix that'.  Now that some folks would like to move forwards towards

Re: [VOTE] LDAP in APR 2.x?

2009-03-24 Thread Graham Leggett
Paul Querna wrote: It will always be in the subversion history. If its redone and isn't a leaky abstraction, then sure, we can look at bringing it back, this vote doesn't stop that from happening. This vote is about what we want to do in the short term, and frankly the LDAP stuff has

Re: [VOTE] LDAP in APR 2.x?

2009-03-24 Thread Joe Orton
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 11:26:36AM +0100, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: [ ] Fix the LDAP interface to be a complete/full LDAP abstraction [X] Remove the LDAP interfaces from APR Folding this code into mod_ldap seems like the right thing to do. Regards, Joe

Re: [VOTE] LDAP in APR 2.x?

2009-03-24 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Graham Leggett wrote: A far more pragmatic approach to this problem is this: We want to combine apr and apr-util into apr-2.0, but we don't want to go to the effort of moving across apr-ldap, because there are moves afoot to have this abstraction redone. Can we move everything else, and

Re: [VOTE] LDAP in APR 2.x?

2009-03-24 Thread Graham Leggett
William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: So it sounds that you will accept copying apr-ldap into a sandbox and would like to continue to pursue it and come up with something workable. In the meantime, the /repos/asf/apr/apr-util/trunk/ WILL disappear with nothing but a SEE_OTHER file. So we can certainly

Modular APR

2009-03-24 Thread Joe Orton
On the topic of how to split up APR into multiple libraries, I had a look through the current directories, and a first cut at how I'd propose to split the code up would be: (directory - library-name [dependencies]) buckets - libapr-buckets crypto - libapr-crypto dbd - libapr-db

Re: [VOTE] LDAP in APR 2.x?

2009-03-24 Thread Brad Nicholes
On 3/24/2009 at 4:26 AM, in message 5c902b9e0903240326r3222ac90k15dcb7f34d2d1...@mail.gmail.com, Justin Erenkrantz jus...@erenkrantz.com wrote: So, during the conversations we've had here in Amsterdam regarding combining APR and APR-util (see post from Paul), one of the big stumbling blocks

Re: [VOTE] LDAP in APR 2.x?

2009-03-24 Thread Brad Nicholes
On 3/24/2009 at 7:47 AM, in message 4239a4320903240647x12f09613l6eb58974cd656...@mail.gmail.com, Paul Querna p...@querna.org wrote: On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Graham Leggett minf...@sharp.fm wrote: William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: We've actually discussed this on list for several years, and

Re: Modular APR

2009-03-24 Thread Graham Leggett
Joe Orton wrote: On the topic of how to split up APR into multiple libraries, I had a look through the current directories, and a first cut at how I'd propose to split the code up would be: (directory - library-name [dependencies]) buckets - libapr-buckets crypto - libapr-crypto dbd

Re: Modular APR

2009-03-24 Thread Joe Orton
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 04:58:02PM +0200, Graham Leggett wrote: If I am understanding you correctly, for a library like dbd that contains sub-libraries, you would have libapr-db, which in turn loads dynamic modules called (say) libapr-db-pgsql (etc)? apr_dbd.c would be linked into a

Re: Modular APR

2009-03-24 Thread Mladen Turk
Joe Orton wrote: On the topic of how to split up APR into multiple libraries, I had a look through the current directories, and a first cut at how I'd propose to split the code up would be: (directory - library-name [dependencies]) buckets - libapr-buckets crypto - libapr-crypto dbd

Re: Modular APR

2009-03-24 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Mladen Turk wrote: Joe Orton wrote: On the topic of how to split up APR into multiple libraries, I had a look through the current directories, and a first cut at how I'd propose to split the code up would be: (directory - library-name [dependencies]) buckets - libapr-buckets crypto -

Re: Modular APR

2009-03-24 Thread Ruediger Pluem
On 24.03.2009 17:41, Mladen Turk wrote: Joe Orton wrote: On the topic of how to split up APR into multiple libraries, I had a look through the current directories, and a first cut at how I'd propose to split the code up would be: (directory - library-name [dependencies]) buckets -

Re: Modular APR

2009-03-24 Thread Joe Orton
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 05:43:52PM +0100, William Rowe wrote: Mladen Turk wrote: Joe Orton wrote: On the topic of how to split up APR into multiple libraries, I had a look through the current directories, and a first cut at how I'd propose to split the code up would be: ... What's the

Re: Modular APR

2009-03-24 Thread Mladen Turk
Ruediger Pluem wrote: On 24.03.2009 17:41, Mladen Turk wrote: Joe Orton wrote: On the topic of how to split up APR into multiple libraries, I had a look through the current directories, and a first cut at how I'd propose to split the code up would be: (directory - library-name

Re: [VOTE] LDAP in APR 2.x?

2009-03-24 Thread Bojan Smojver
On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 11:26 +0100, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: [x] Fix the LDAP interface to be a complete/full LDAP abstraction [ ] Remove the LDAP interfaces from APR Provided most of the code can be taken from mod_ldap. In other words, more people can use it if it is in APR. But, if it is hard

Shuffle members of an apr_array_t

2009-03-24 Thread Jacob Rief
Since I had the need for a function, which shuffles members of an apr_array_t, I have written one which conforms to the style of apr and which could be added to future versions of the apr library. I would be glad to donate the sources: Source:

Re: [VOTE] LDAP in APR 2.x?

2009-03-24 Thread Graham Leggett
Bojan Smojver wrote: [x] Fix the LDAP interface to be a complete/full LDAP abstraction [ ] Remove the LDAP interfaces from APR Provided most of the code can be taken from mod_ldap. In other words, more people can use it if it is in APR. But, if it is hard to do (i.e. if mod_ldap doesn't

Re: [VOTE] LDAP in APR 2.x?

2009-03-24 Thread Bojan Smojver
On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 01:34 +0200, Graham Leggett wrote: mod_ldap is an LDAP cache, it isn't an LDAP abstraction layer (that's what apr-ldap is for). I meant, maybe there is code in there that already abstract a lot of that stuff, which can then be reused, given it works with many LDAP

how to use apr-debug and apr-util-debug

2009-03-24 Thread 贾晓建
Hello everyone! I want to use apr-debug and apr-util-debug to get the debug information of apr and apr-util! But I do not know how to use it? Is there any reference? I have installed apr-debug-1.2.11-1mdv2008.0.i586.rpm and apr-util-debug-1.2.10-1mdv2008.0.i586.rpm in my computer, and