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

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