> -----Original Message----- > From: Mo DeJong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, December 16, 2000 3:56 PM > To: dev@apr.apache.org > Subject: Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: RE: *.exports in distro bundle, use > of , Perl on Windows (was: Re: make_export.awk)] > > > > > > I'll change, no problem. The only advantage to Perl is that it is the one > > free interpreted language many Windows web authors may have already > > installed. > > Awk is definately a stretch - only diehards already have it installed. > > > > Bill > > I guess I don't follow the logic there. How exactly would Windows > developers run the configure script if they did not have Cygwin > installed? Last I checked, perl did not read sh files, so you > would need to have a version of /bin/sh on the Windows box > to be able to run configure. I was not aware that there was > a pure Win32 version of /bin/sh, I had always assumed people > would be using Cygwin to run the ./configure script. Since > Cygwin does not come with perl and it does come with gnu > utils like sed and awk, we should use the utils and not > perl. Does that sound reasonable to everyone?
Nak, no, you cannot incorporate cygwin on win32 for apr/apache, and, no, Win32 doesn't run ./configure, and no, we don't expect anyone on win32 to handle installation of anything beyond the easy-to-install activestate perl, or we incoroporate the Lucient licensed awk. Apr itself is not built on cygwin porting. This is a copy of CYGWIN_LICENSE from the cygwin sources... This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. and that, for an Apache project, is the kiss of death.
