I'd like to propose that we bump the minimal APR version from the current 0.9.7 to something a bit more modern, say 1.3.0.
1.3.0 was released in June 2008, and we are already conditionally using parts of it. In fact, in the 1.6.x series, we've even shipped APR/APR-util 1.3.x in the deps tarball. Neither of these practices have caused consternation among our users, who almost exclusively use the system-provided APR (or the one compiled into their client). We are currently planning on making ra_serf the default dav provider in Subversion 1.7. As ra_serf depends on serf, and the latter requires APR at least 1.x, I think it reasonable that we bump our minimal required APR version as well. In that past, I recall some pressing reason for still keeping 0.9.7 as the minimal required version, but I don't recall what those arguments were, nor do I think they are still relevant. Thoughts? -Hyrum
