Cool stuff!
Thanks all!
Bill
> Folks,
>
> I'm pleased to announce that Covalent is donating back my efforts to the
> .msi based binary installer for Win32. Please note it comprises not only the
> blood sweat and tears of newsgroup testers who put it 'through the paces', but
> Covalent's QA team. Of course this comes with my ongoing committment to act
> as maintainer for the Win32 installer.
>
> This 'project' will be used for both the apache-1.3 (as we did on 1.3.17) and
> for the httpd-2.0 distributions. It will also be 'tagged' after we successfully
> build the compiler for the particular version. Therefore it was entirely silly
> to stow it in both 1.3 and 2.0 trees, or either tree for that matter.
>
> Anyone interested in helping extend the installer can grab the httpd-win32-msi
> repository. It has been tagged once, APACHE_1_3_17_R1 for the release that sits
> today in /dist/binaries/win32. If you are interested in commit activity against
> that repository, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] - this shouldn't become
> extra email cruft for those who aren't interested in the Win32 install mechanics.
>
> I have great hopes for strengthening this installer through other contributors'
> help. One great feature would be allowing the user to choose a port other than
> the default 80, and then verification that we can actually set up the accept
> socket against the server's name and selected port. By then attempting to
> duplicate the socket handle, we will discover prior to installation that the user
> suffers from a crippled winsock provider, such as Aventail Connect.
>
> Enjoy,
>
> Bill
>
> p.s. My sincere thanks to Covalent, for letting me devote so much of my 'work' time
> to revamping this support and allowing me to pass it back to the community.
> Covalent SSL 1.5 for Apache, Windows NT/2000 edition was released without much
>fanfare
> two weeks ago, and many of the improvements in this past month and a half come not
>only
> from the newslist and testers here, but especially Ryan Gilfillan, who's name you
>will
> be seeing more often in bugfix commits. He's truly in the ranks of X-QA (as in
> eXtreme Quality Assurance. I can't slip anything past him :-)
>
>
