On 2013-06-22 17:03, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: > On Sat, 22 Jun 2013 13:06:03 +0200 > olli hauer <oha...@gmx.de> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> is there a public roadmap for apr and apr-util? >> >> I remember I have read something like changing to cmake. >> >> Also in the past there where sometimes a apr-2 snapshot >> where everything was delivered in one big distfile. >> (I think apr_20110821151329 was the last) >> >> I'm interested in this details to draw a rad map for the >> FreeBSD apr / apr-util / apache ports. > > This is all discussed on this list, and changes with little > debate are usually passed through the corresponding STATUS > files in each branch. There is no other active top level > planning document at this time.
Thanks for pointing to the STATUS files. > In the near term, no major changes are expected, and we are > unlikely to rip out autoconf for those platforms where it works > relatively well. There are some new features in apr-2.0 (where > apr-util has been folded into the same library) but not particular > schedule for releasing that branch at this time, nor a schedule > to release a new version-minor of 1.x of either apr or apr-util. > > Windows specific build files and scons support are likely to > be replaced by cmake in the near term, initially in apr-2.0 tree. > It remains to be seen if this is worth applying to apr-1.x, or if > we use that effort to drive 2.0 towards release. OK, so it seems apr-1 and apr-utils will be around the next years. For you as background why I ask: For nearly a decade apr and apr-utils are handled on FreeBSD together as a single port and we started a discussion to separate them into two ports. -- olli
