[Joe Orton] > Yes, APR could detect system features at run-time, and yes, doing so > would be a complete maintenance nightmare having a small net negative > run-time cost to 99% of users, and no, it's not worth doing.
So in your opinion, which of these two options should we have gone with instead? - status quo: some users on Linux 2.4 simply cannot run Apache 2 at all - NO Debian users can use Apache 2 to serve 4+GB files The first one is a non-starter, we can't just decide to stop supporting those users. As for the second, LFS was the main reason we wanted to switch to Apache 2.2 in the first place. In this day and age, some people actually want to ship DVD images over HTTP. I suppose there's also the Gentoo Option: tell users they should just compile all the software they use, on every box they want to use it on. Some would call that a valid strategy, but Debian users would never put up with it. They expect not to have to mess with stuff like that - it's one reason they use Debian.
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