Hi Henri...
Kevin here...
> You wrote...
>
> Kevin,
>
> mod_gzip is one of the best module for Apache today, and having it
> in Apache 2.0 will be really usefull. As many I'll be happy to test
> it against Apache 2.0 beta, and if APIs change I'll understand and
> never complain about that.
>
> You do a great job in mod_gzip for Apache 1.3.x, please show it
> under 2.0 ....
>
> Regards
This is about to become ( if not already ) seriously OT for Apache
forum despite the fact that Minfrin asked the question so let me
make this quick before the flames appear...
Henri... as an active member of the mod_gzip forum and one of
the first to use mod_zip to compress your own SSL traffic you
know better than most that with a filtering module like mod_gzip
it isn't even so much what Apache is doing... it's what all the
other modules are doing as well that matters.
I am NOT going to release a version of mod_gzip that uses the
new Apache filtering until I at least get a chance to test it with
SOME of the other 'new' Apache 2.0 static/dynamic content
generators that it's supposed to intercept and compress.
That would be insane and do nothing but flood my boxes with
'Why doesn't this work' messages if there are problems.
What I am assuming is that by the time Apache 2.0 is released
there will be at least SOME 'first pass' at all of the important
'other' modules like mod_ssl and mod_perl and mod_python and mod_php
and mod_coldfusion and mod_weblogic and mod_god_all_what_else
so I can at least make sure those authors haven't done something
really weird with the new filtering API that might prevent mod_gzip
from doing what it's supposed to.
Even with the new filtering scheme, people are people, and all
of those other modules are more than likely going to be coded
the way the originals were with the point of view that they are
all in 'their own little world'. There ARE some pretty easy ways
to do the new 2.0 filtering WRONG and odds are that one of
these modules is going to do just that on a 'first pass'.
I think you are asking me to release the cart before the horses are
even saddled up in the barn. It's not gonna happen.
Is there ANY word about when a first-cut of at least mod_perl
and mod_php for 2.0 might be available? Those 2 would be
a good start, anyway. I anybody even WORKING on the 2.0
versions of these essential modules?
> >Kiley wrote...
> >
> >The first version of mod_gzip ever written was for 2.0, not 1.3.x.
> >It was coded against the very first Alpha that had the filtering
> >code to make sure it would work OK. It did.
> >
> >In December of last year when we realized how far away a
> >release of Apache 2.0 really is we punted and went BACKWARDS
> >and wrote the 1.3.x version of mod_gzip. mod_gzip now works all
> >the way back to 1.3.6 and even farther if you comment out the
> >ap_regexec() calls which didn't exist prior to that.
> >
> >It currently works fine for 2.0 but I am NOT going to release
> >any module
> >I have written for Apache 2.0 until there is an OFFICIAL ( non-beta )
> >release of the Server itself. mod_gzip isn't the only one we have
> >ready to go for 2.0.
> >
> >The filtering stuff is still changing. I don't want any version of a
> >2.0 module out there until I am sure it doesn't need to be
> >rewritten ( or re-tested ) It just wouldn't be a good idea.
