On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 12:57:55PM -0500, Bill Hernandez wrote: > Perhaps if you are a home user with an iMac or a laptop you can get > by with Apache 1.3, (we're talking 4 or 5 years after Apache 2 became > available) but certainly if you are shelling out a bunch of money for > OSX Server, Apple should be more forthcoming.
This is where your assumotion goes wrong: Apple has used the community-provided software to build a product, OS X. If you don't like all the details of that product (and I'll tell you that, from my point of view, Apache 1.3 is still _just fine_), then you can alter your system to do this. And in fact the ports project provides a (not perfect, but good) infrastructure to make those alterations. But just like any other technology, if you're going to start mucking with the insides, the vendor shouldn't take the blame for problems you encounter. That said, I think you're starting to understand why all those former LISP machine users switched to the early Apple Macintoshes when they did. Because UNIX sucks. It just sucks less than everything else widely used these days: http://www.simson.net/ref/ugh.pdf A -- Andrew Sullivan 204-4141 Yonge Street Afilias Canada Toronto, Ontario Canada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> M2P 2A8 jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1 416 646 3304 x4110 _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
