On Nov 20, 2011 12:46 AM, "Peter Samuelson" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Currently if you load mod_authz_svn, you have to make sure mod_dav_svn > is loaded before it, not after. I'm sure this is usually not a problem > - but in Debian/Ubuntu, the Apache module machinery enables modules by > use of tiny config files that each load one module. The filenames > determine load order, so a config file named 'authz_svn.load' is read > before one named 'dav_svn.load'. > > In the past we got around this by shipping a single 'dav_svn.load' that > loads _both_ modules, but I never liked that solution, as most people > don't need mod_authz_svn at all. > > Thus, appended is a patch to mod_authz_svn to pull in the two dav_svn > functions in such a way as to work even if the modules are loaded in > the "wrong" order. > > Question: do we care about breaking third-party Apache modules that use > the two functions used by mod_authz_svn? (These third-party modules > would need to do the same thing I'm patching mod_authz_svn to do.) If > so, we can leave the original prototype in the public mod_dav_svn.h > instead of moving it, as I've done below.
Yes, we care. I would bet that CollabNet uses them for its custom authz. Cheers, -g
