"Gomez Henri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The account [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a generic accound which let
the use of that account isn't a problem... we just wondered who sent
the patch :)
> What do you think of the patches ? I know that IBM allready
> do the Apache 2.0 port from Apache 2.0beta18, and it works
> fine on AS/400, but since the IBM fellows port was not donated
> to ASF, to be included in standard distro, I decided to spend
> a little time to works on that port.
they're small, and that's nice... they looked weird in the mail
client I was using though...
as far as the AS/400 folks... they have sent their changes to folks
in my department at IBM (who are more in the mainstream Apache
development)... frankly, I found it far too much to digest at once
and have been too lazy^H^H^H^Hbusy to do anything with it
also, they've posted some fixes to dev@[apr|httpd].apache.org...
> Yes it's stupid to duplicate works but I'd like to have the
> original Apache 2.0 on my iSeries from the main source and
> repository, and not just to respect the OSS spirit of ASF.
> But, may be, some of you could try some lobbying on IBM officials
> and managers to commit the AS/400 patches back to original CVS
> for both APR and Apache 2.0
I don't think any lobbying is necessary. They know it is in their
best interest. But note that their code base is a lot older, with
many things changed since then. Also, their goal was to get a stable,
tested product out in a particular timeframe, not go through the
political+technical minefield of getting patches committed. The
results are surely different.
If you've made good progress towards getting current code ported to
AS/400, and you can post it in bite-sized chunks for us to understand,
then let's concentrate on that.
As I mentioned before, I'm curious about how far along you are. If
you are at the state of APR recognizing that it is AS/400 but nothing
works, then I personally won't spend any time looking at the patches
until you're further along. Others may take a different approach.
I hope this doesn't sound like any sort of gauntlet. If we weren't
interested in your work we wouldn't have bothered commenting on your
post.
Thanks,
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