Re: Proposal: apr-tools project

2021-04-05 Thread Graham Leggett
On 18 Jan 2021, at 12:43, Graham Leggett wrote: > Moving from the theory to making this real: > > https://github.com/minfrin/apr-tools > > The first tool is called “endec”[1], and exposes all the APR apr_encode.h and > apr_escape.h functions. Generated man page is here: > >

Re: Proposal: apr-tools project

2021-01-18 Thread Graham Leggett
On 27 Jul 2019, at 21:29, William A Rowe Jr wrote: > I'd think that the APT Project (Apache Portable Tools?) would be a good > community to kick off, and it should be independent and self organizing. It > should follow its own versioning and release schema, since what is best > practice for

Re: Proposal: apr-tools project

2019-07-27 Thread William A Rowe Jr
On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 8:26 AM Graham Leggett wrote: > On 25 Jul 2019, at 14:26, Nick Kew wrote: > > > Would that be purely in C, or could it be a mix, perhaps including > scripting languages? > > Purely in C. > > Exposing APR to other languages through something like swig also sounds >

Re: Proposal: apr-tools project

2019-07-26 Thread Jim Jagielski
> On Jul 25, 2019, at 7:22 AM, Graham Leggett wrote: > > Hi all, > > Disclaimer: I don’t have time to do this right now, but at some point soon I > would like to get something like this done. > > I propose the creation of, in addition to apr and apr-util, the apr-tools > project. > >

Re: Proposal: apr-tools project

2019-07-25 Thread Graham Leggett
On 25 Jul 2019, at 14:26, Nick Kew wrote: > Would that be purely in C, or could it be a mix, perhaps including scripting > languages? Purely in C. Exposing APR to other languages through something like swig also sounds useful, but that’s not my goal here. > First thought: harmless, but how

Re: Proposal: apr-tools project

2019-07-25 Thread Greg Stein
On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 7:26 AM Nick Kew wrote: > > On 25 Jul 2019, at 12:22, Graham Leggett wrote: > >... > > Second question is structure. Part of APR? Alongside APR? > > Either within APR or your external effort: IMHO it would be excessively > bureaucratic > to put it within the ASF but

Re: Proposal: apr-tools project

2019-07-25 Thread Nick Kew
> On 25 Jul 2019, at 12:22, Graham Leggett wrote: > > Hi all, > > I propose the creation of, in addition to apr and apr-util, the apr-tools > project. > > apr-tools would contain a series of command line tools that correspond with > many of the capabilities of the apr library. Such tools

Proposal: apr-tools project

2019-07-25 Thread Graham Leggett
Hi all, Disclaimer: I don’t have time to do this right now, but at some point soon I would like to get something like this done. I propose the creation of, in addition to apr and apr-util, the apr-tools project. apr-tools would contain a series of command line tools that correspond with many