I was today looking at http://httpd.apache.org/docs/install.html and found it to be ... how to put this nicely ... suboptimal. It contains little nuggets like "Apache is designed to be configured and run from the same set of directories where it is compiled." and "Copy or rename these files to the names without the -dist." Was this written back in the 1.2 days? I see that it's been worked on some lately, but I'm not clear on what's been done to it.
I see that the 2.0 install docs have gotten a decent overhaul, and I was wondering if there were still existing strong opinions around the whole Configure/configure thing, or if similar things could be done to the 1.3 install docs. The reason I ask this is that I heard yet another comment today about how Apache is hard to install, if all you have to go on is the documentation. I found this a rather disturbing comment. I've also heard more than once that installing mod_perl with Apache is incredibly difficult, and I believed this for a rather long time also. But it's really quite difficult. Obviously, we need to do something about this, because if people can't install it, then they can't use it Can we get this put on the STATUS list? I suppose that there are political issues involved, but I'm not particular sure that it matters a whole lot. It's important that we remove impedences keeping people from using it. And this installation doc, which is completely out of sync with the INSTALL file in the source tarball, is not winning us any friends. -- And everyone said, "If we only live, We too will go to sea in a Sieve - To the hills of the Chankly Bore!" (The Jumblies, by Edward Lear) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
