On Jun 14, 2013 11:36 AM, "Eric Covener" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 10:41 AM, André Malo <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 12 June 2013 21:18:05 Stefan Fritsch wrote:
> >> On Tuesday 11 June 2013, André Malo wrote:
> >> > >        trunk patch: http://svn.apache.org/r1491155
> >> > >        2.4.x patch: trunk patch works
> >> > >        nd: why would you do that in a stable branch?
> >> > >
> >> > > +      sf: Because it is only annoying and serves no purpose
> >> > > anymore. If you +          want, we can make it a minor MMN bump
> >> > > for adding a "new" API. +1: sf, covener
> >> > >
> >> > >        -1: nd
> >> >
> >> > Long discussions in STATUS are kinda tedious ;-)
> >> >
> >> > Well, I think, such changes are what trunk is for. Why not simply
> >> > leave  everything below as-is? Even more if it removes only an
> >> > annoyance? Or is there a real technical reason I'm just not seeing
> >> > right now?
> >
> > [...]
> >>
> >> Or, is there a real technical reason to keep it broken in 2.4?
> >
> > Annoying rhetoric games aside - we went from "only annoying" to
"broken". What
> > is it now?
> >
> > No other opinion on this?
>
> I think Stefan did it justice in the STATUS remark.  I don't really
> understand the objection. Are you afraid a strtoul will sneak into one
> of our modules, or that a module developer needs this macro to protect
> them from it?
>
> --
> Eric Covener
> [email protected]

If I can interject randomly...

Give it a minor bump so module authors can hide their workarounds for older
httpd in a self-documenting way, and so there's a CYA if some very odd,
existing module workaround breaks unexpectedly...

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