Just to keep people up to date with progress :-) The ASF mail server decided to stop my mails again and so I didn't get the issues email out on Monday as I'd have liked. We seem to be making progress on resolving things and the issues are slowly going away - all of which is good.
Ben's point about the md5 code is well made and so rather than change the api I think we should fix/review the code to try and make the return values more meaningful. Nick Kew's patch for apr-util and uri's is additions to the api, so it's fine for 1.1. There is also a code fix in the patch that should be applied prior to 1.0. It'd still be good if Nick or someone else would provide a test that showed the problems though :-) There are now enough votes in place to change the thread return types, just waiting on a patch to change it. Will Rowe seems to have ideas about how to do it so maybe he'll provide a patch. I think this is something that should be in 1.0 as we'll have to live with it for a long time. The proposed change to apr_initialise is presently veto'd by Greg, though there are a lot of +1's. I'm still hopeful Greg can explain his veto. That said there isn't a patch available yet, so I'm forced to say that this is bumped to 1.1, even though it could well be an api change. I'm guessing it could (possibly) be done by adding another function, so maybe we can avoid the change. The other items were marked as being non-showstoppers by Justin, though if anyone has time a review prior to the final release might not go amiss. So far the only outstanding issue of any note is the locking. Justin's proposed patch seems to be most in favour but hasn't had any votes for it, while Ryan's has had a +1 vote. (Will Rowe's +1 seems vague as to which side of the fence he's on) Neither has gotten near the 3 +1's required, so neither is presently going in. Following the mail delay (about 20 hours) I'm going to delay the initial tag to ensure people have a good chance to review things. I'm busy on Thursday but should have time to at least add the tag. So, the plan is to tag on late Thursday and then create a tarball on Friday morning (timings UK local time). david
