Hi all,
Am 24.08.2010 18:42, schrieb Jim Jagielski:
The pre-release test tarballs for httpd-2.3.8 (alpha) are
available for download, test and fun:
http://httpd.apache.org/dev/dist/
Will call for a release vote in a coupla days...
I know that this topic was already up here, but nevertheless I think we
should re-think about including PCRE again.
Other than openssl or zlib PCRE is a mandatory dependency like APR/APU,
and I see no benefit in dropping it from our dependencies deliveries
other than making tarballs smaller, and that is nowadays certainly not
an issue anymore.
We want Apache to build form source on at many platforms as possible -
sure the main target is Linux / Unix, but we have a couple of other
platforms where PCRE is not installed by default, that are at least
Win32, NetWare, most likely OS/2, and probably a couple of others too.
I tried to build 2.3.7 already for NetWare and Win32, and while NetWare
went fine only because I have an (self) adapted makefile (from previous
times when we shipped PCRE), the Win32 stuff is horrible: there comes
some suggestion up that I should build PCRE with CMake with xxx option;
1st I have to download CMake and depend on another build tool (ok, not
that big issue), but whats even more worse is that the CMake build
failed for me, and thats really bad - you cant just go and build httpd
as you do on Linux, no! Your build process is always interupted, and
probably as in my case finally broken at all.
Hey, friends, we do much better with 2.2.x where we ship PCRE: we have
our own makefile, and the build goes through in one go without need for
other tools like CMake - just the compiler and probably a platform PDK
are enough (and thats how it shoud be).
Therefore I want to start a vote here again where we vote for including
PCRE again with the dependencies - just as we (now) do with APR/APU;
and everyone who votes against should give some good reasons what speaks
against -- the fact that every Linux comes with PCRE is certainly no
good reason - it only leads finally to the fact that we might end up
with 50 builds of httpd 2.after-2.x with different PCE versions which
makes then nice bug hunting, and we cant even tell someone who faces a
prob to 'use our shipping PCRE which is known to be good'.
Here we go:
[ ] YES - include recent PCRE again with dependencies (means we
create a PCRE repo in svn, check in a recent version, and add
platform-dependent makefiles which are fully integrated into
main build process).
[ ] NO - dont include PCRE (as currently) because of reason: ...
thanks, Gün.
