Besides, we had no problems supporting OpenSSL 0.9.6 for years :) If/when brotli 1.0.0 is released, we simply add support for that as well. No biggie.
> On Jan 17, 2017, at 8:27 AM, Jim Jagielski <[email protected]> wrote: > > Actually, it works fine w/ Brotli 0.5.2 which is > what I have installed. > >> On Jan 16, 2017, at 3:28 PM, Evgeny Kotkov <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> Jim Jagielski <[email protected]> writes: >> >>> Functional patch avail... working on doccos. >>> >>> http://home.apache.org/~jim/patches/brotli-2.4.patch >> >> Hi Jim, >> >> Thank you for the backport patch. >> >> There is, however, a potential problem with backporting mod_brotli, since >> it relies on the Brotli library 1.0.0, which has not yet been released. >> In other words, if the upstream changes the API or the library layout >> or their pkg-config files after mod_brotli is shipped with httpd 2.4.x, it's >> either going to stop building or working. >> >> The open ticket about the new release is here: >> >> https://github.com/google/brotli/issues/483 >> >> My impression on this is that mod_brotli is only safe to backport after the >> Brotli authors publish the 1.0.0 version of their library. But perhaps I am >> missing something? >> >> (Apart from this, I think that Brotli did change the layout of their >> pkg-config >> files in [https://github.com/google/brotli/commit/fe9f9a91], and it requires >> an update in the filters/config.m4 file; I'll do that.) >> >> >> Regards, >> Evgeny Kotkov >
