Peter Samuelson wrote: > [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
- create Linux 2.4/2.6 Apache packages. btw, a "portable runtime" that does not runs on both Linux 2.4/2.6 is lame. I don't buy this "maintenance nightmare" argument, expect for epoll and sendfile, are others runtime detections needed ? Those can be done at apr_initialize() without any penalties. just my 2 cents.
