On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 9:50 AM, Graham Leggett <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 21 Apr 2014, at 3:38 PM, Jeff Trawick <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Let's bring this down to earth. Do you to promote a 1.6.x > branch/release soon-ish (e.g., within a month or so) and discuss what new > features various developers are interested in promoting for 1.6.x, or do > you just want to have the branch pick up changes steadily until 1.6.x > gradually acquires different constituencies that want/need a feature relase? > > Promote a v1.6.x soonish would be good for me. I have a need to teach the > ap_expr parser how to escape LDAP in order to support the ability to handle > arbitrary expressions in both of httpd's "require ldap-filter" and a > proposed "require ldap-search". > > Right now we support expressions in "require ldap-filter" but we don't > have the ability to escape LDAP sequences, which limits the usefulness of > the feature. mod_authnz_ldap had buried escaping in it that I missed when I > tried to tease all the escaping code out of httpd, which was a pity. > > Regards, > Graham > -- > > IMHO as a httpd+apr dev: * If httpd trunk switches to apr escape API to the extent practical and throws out its own implementation, and unreleased APR features are the natural way to accommodate that, I think that is ample justification for a new APR 1.x branch. (Otherwise, continue to patch up the httpd escape API to support backporting to 2.4.x as necessary.) * In httpd 2.4.x-land, I think everyone should try reasonably hard to avoid depending on newer and newer levels of APR for this or that feature. For us it is a very minor detail but for users it is something else to stumble over in case their distro or their own prior efforts got them a level of APR which is generally ok. -- Born in Roswell... married an alien... http://emptyhammock.com/ http://edjective.org/
