"tweak"
William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote:
William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote:
I see there are only two conclusions based on Joe's veto, therefore vote
for one;
[ ] Revert to inheriting INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE on win32 for all unspecified
stdio streams (1.2.8 behavior, retaining all other inheritance bugfixes)
and for the lifespan of 1.2.x remain incompatible with Unix. (In 1.3.0
we still follow unix behavior of inheriting the parent's stdio streams
for unspecified channels).
[ ] "Tweak" our versioning rules to permit Windows users to continue to use
the incompatible behavior via a new APR_NO_FILE macro flag in APR 1.2.12
(this remains ABI-compatible since it's a macro).
Please vote, I will be closing the debate shortly to roll out 1.2.12 in the
very near future. Essentially option #1 says we can fix platform-incompatible
in a subversion release, option #2 says we don't attempt to solve platform
inconsistencies until the next minor release. Choose your preference.
Sorry - flip #1/#2 in the explanation above - Revert means we can't really
solve a platform inconsistency until the minor release, while "Tweak" means
we can introduce a platform specific option to preserve inconsistent behavior
when it's needed by a small minority of our users, while addressing the larger
incompatibility for the vast majority of APR applications.
