On Thu, 16 Sep 2004, Paul Querna wrote: > In most of the Apache 2.0.XX releases, we have been using a CVS snapshot > of APR and APR-Util. > > I would like to make it an official policy that for the 2.2 cycle, we > will never use a CVS snapshot of APR.
That makes httpd releases (relatively frequent) hostage to APR releases (extremely infrequent) when we need a bugfix in CVS. Is that acceptable? > I believe we should still bundle APR and APR-Util with HTTPd, but we > should only use the released versions of each. Release version ABI yes. Release version - only if that dependency can be fixed (i.e. APR folks can be hurried along where necessary). > > It will also make life much easier for System Packagers. If we only use > released versions, APR and APR-Util can be easily placed into separate > packages. This will become more important as more standalone > applications use APR. Keeping binary-compatibility (ABI) is sufficient for that, innit? -- Nick Kew
