On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 8:52 AM, Jim Jagielski <j...@jagunet.com> wrote:
> Maybe the real question is where exactly do we stand with > Windows right now... > > We haven't had (complimentary) binary builds for Windows in > quite awhile IMO this is irrelevant now... (tm)-lounge binaries are fine. > and, afaict, there are really no people focusing > on Windows compatibility anymore. > Alternatively, there are no people spending "enough time" on Windows compatibility... > > For me, I wouldn't want to stunt httpd development for "every > other platform we care about" simply because it breaks > Windows. But it's not just my decision, 'natch. > FWLIW, Windows stands in for z/OS to some extent w.r.t. symbol resolution... The unfortunate fact is that while developers *generally* aren't very interested in Windows (and much less so z/OS or other niche platforms), product managers at a slew of multinationals and smaller companies have incredible lust for having that checkmark in the big table yet aren't willing to spend a dime to make it happen. Lots of us are employees of or otherwise manage to siphon money from these companies. Make a pitch... (And some of us are happy to freelance ;) ) > > On May 17, 2013, at 10:36 AM, Guenter Knauf <fua...@apache.org> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > I will revert the changes done with: > > http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1332643 > > after 72 hours if nobody is going to fix the stuff properly for Windows > since I'm tired of always copying mod_ssl over from 2.4.x branch in order > to get a working mod_ssl with trunk. > > > > Reasons: > > 1) within last 12 months there was no attempt made to fix the issues > which wrowe mentioned in this thread [1] - instead discussion died > > 2) a suggestion to fix the issue [2] was not applied due to the concerns > wrowe brought up, and to which I agree. > > 3) the same issue also causes a stalled backport in 2.2.x STATUS [3] for > the last 12 months > > > > [1] > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/httpd-dev/201302.mbox/%3C20130205115224.33547872@hub%3E > > [2] > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/httpd-dev/201302.mbox/%3c510d8293.8010...@gknw.net%3E > > [3] http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1333501 > > > > I believe that one year in trunk without further review is long enough, > and if someone wants to continue working on it its easy enough to checkout > the last revision before removal. > > > > Gün. > > > > > > -- Born in Roswell... married an alien... http://emptyhammock.com/
