(Overquoting a bit since your previous message didn't hit the BTS) On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 05:41:26PM +0200, Max Kellermann wrote: >> Yes, due to #319614, which says exactly the opposite of your bug report. :-) > b.d.o was down when I submitted the report, but I guessed that. This > bug report is bogus.
Heh, OK. >> That seems like an odd use-case to me. Wouldn't people normally use CGI.pm >> and friends instead if they do not have Apache? > > No, it is definitely not. libapreq2 (unlike libapreq1) is meant to be > used in many different ways in many different environments. Your > package just does not provide most of them currently yet. Assuming > that everybody uses the library with mod_perl and forcing all others > to install apache 2 and mod_perl is bad IMHO. > >> Well, it is Perl glue to an Apache module, after all... > > No, it is not. It is the Perl glue to a C library. Only > APR::Request::Apache2 is the glue to an Apache module, just one > special case. > > By the way, the perl modules Apache2::* are only convenience libraries > providing similar interfaces to CGI.pm and libapreq1. The "main" > modules are APR::Request etc. Therefore, I do not like the package > name you chose (libapache2-request-perl). It should rather be > "libapr-request-perl". > > What do you think about: > > libapr-request-perl Depends libapreq2 > libapr-request-apache2-perl Depends libapr-request-perl, > libapache2-mod-apreq2 I'm not sure if I'd like yet another package split -- it's already up to five binary packages for what I think is a relatively simple package. Adding libapr-request-perl and libapr-request-apache2-perl would be two more, totalling seven (one of them a dummy transitional package)... I might be skewed here, but are people really going to search for “APR::Request::Apache2” and not “Apache2::Request” when going for the package? I'd probably be happy just splitting out libapr-request-perl to make it possible to use the module without Apache, and keep libapache2-request-perl as it is... or would that be evil? /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
