On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 3:40 AM, Niklas Edmundsson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 9 Nov 2009, Nick Kew wrote: > >> Graham Leggett wrote: >> >>> Is there a need to bundle APR at all? >> >> Yep, let's draw a line under that. APR is a dependency, >> not a component. > > I assume that there still is a mechanism corresponding to > --with-included-apr? On a distro with bundled APR version X that httpd > dislikes (or more commonly, that contains bugs that has been fixed in newer > releases that aren't considered a security update for the distro) I find it > very convenient to be able to install httpd without having to jump through > hoops pointing out which APR devel/runtime-stuff it should use. > > So, while APR (and stuff) are indeed dependencies I find > --build-with-known-good-dependency-stuff very useful.
yes, we will have an httpd-deps-x.y.z.tar.bz2 alongside the normal release files.
