What about the patches sent by IBM iSeries folks ? Could you send them back to the list to let iSeries developpers take a look at them ?
Thanks - Henri Gomez ___[_]____ EMAIL : [EMAIL PROTECTED] (. .) PGP KEY : 697ECEDD ...oOOo..(_)..oOOo... PGP Fingerprint : 9DF8 1EA8 ED53 2F39 DC9B 904A 364F 80E6 >-----Original Message----- >From: Jeff Trawick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 2:02 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Some patches to start supporting AS/400 (iSeries) > > >"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, >-- >Jeff Trawick | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | PGP public key at web site: > http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Park/9289/ > Born in Roswell... married an alien... >
