Re: Issue #872 -- who wants to do it?

2002-11-13 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
At 01:12 PM 11/13/2002, Brane wrote: >William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: >> If we plug in some ./configure style choices for the 'non-unix' platforms, >>that earns my wholehearted +1. In this case, it's nothing less than you >>can do when using ./configure on unix to a GNU distro of iconv. >This last is

Re: apr_file_temp_dir()

2002-11-13 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
At 01:16 PM 11/13/2002, Greg Hudson wrote: >On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 11:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> This has been mentioned before -- at least by myself, perhaps by >> others, too -- but the Subversion folks would *really* like to see APR >> grow a gimme-a-temp-directory function. > >Would gimme-a

Re: apr_file_temp_dir()

2002-11-13 Thread Greg Hudson
On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 11:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This has been mentioned before -- at least by myself, perhaps by > others, too -- but the Subversion folks would *really* like to see APR > grow a gimme-a-temp-directory function. Would gimme-a-temp-file be a better interface? Like mkstemp()

Re: Issue #872 -- who wants to do it?

2002-11-13 Thread Branko Äibej
William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: Greg, if there is a way to plug in code into apr, apr-util, httpd, or any other ASF project after the fact, then I'm +1 on choices (GNU? MS? Sun? Who cares???) However, if we choose to 'distribute' code, e.g. binary builds, and those would (by virtue of our choices)

apr_file_temp_dir()

2002-11-13 Thread cmpilato
This has been mentioned before -- at least by myself, perhaps by others, too -- but the Subversion folks would *really* like to see APR grow a gimme-a-temp-directory function. The following is the code portion from Python2.2's tempfile module whereby a list of places to try as valid temp directori

Re: Issue #872 -- who wants to do it?

2002-11-13 Thread Karl Fogel
"William A. Rowe, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > However, if we choose to 'distribute' code, e.g. binary builds, and those > would (by virtue of our choices) require a GPL distribution, that's not only > earning a non-technical -1, but an outright outrageous position for the > Chairman of t

Re: Issue #872 -- who wants to do it?

2002-11-13 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Greg, if there is a way to plug in code into apr, apr-util, httpd, or any other ASF project after the fact, then I'm +1 on choices (GNU? MS? Sun? Who cares???) However, if we choose to 'distribute' code, e.g. binary builds, and those would (by virtue of our choices) require a GPL distributi

Re: Issue #872 -- who wants to do it?

2002-11-13 Thread Greg Stein
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 01:50:51PM +0100, Branko Cibej wrote: > Greg Stein wrote: >... > >*optionally* using iconv should be no problem. It just gets hairy when you > >require the thing. I don't see a reason that patches for optional linkage > >would be rejected... > > Well, I had done exactly that