Re: 2.2.7 seems to come in sight: Digest of STATUS

2007-11-15 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Nov 15, 2007, at 4:22 PM, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: Ruediger Pluem wrote: Now that the TR of APR / APR-UTIL is in progress (Thanks Other Bill) httpd 2.2.7 seems to come in sight. There are about 10 backport proposals in the STATUS file that are only missing one vote. So come on it is

Re: 2.2.7 seems to come in sight: Digest of STATUS

2007-11-15 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Ruediger Pluem wrote: Now that the TR of APR / APR-UTIL is in progress (Thanks Other Bill) httpd 2.2.7 seems to come in sight. There are about 10 backport proposals in the STATUS file that are only missing one vote. So come on it is voting and review time guys :-)). There is one backport

Re: x64 binary build instructions was Re: 2.2.7

2007-09-28 Thread Jorge Schrauwen
On 9/28/07, William A. Rowe, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So with Jorge's and help from a few others, 2.2.6 builds quite nicely at the command line. To make the transition to the GUI requires some other steps, and I'm hoping these are simpler with 2.2.7 if I have a whole weekend to work them

Re: x64 binary build instructions was Re: 2.2.7

2007-09-28 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
On 9/28/07, *William A. Rowe, Jr.* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So with Jorge's and help from a few others, 2.2.6 builds quite nicely at the command line. To make the transition to the GUI requires some other steps, and I'm hoping these are simpler with

Re: x64 binary build instructions was Re: 2.2.7

2007-09-28 Thread Jorge Schrauwen
On 9/28/07, William A. Rowe, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/28/07, *William A. Rowe, Jr.* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So with Jorge's and help from a few others, 2.2.6 builds quite nicely at the command line. To make the transition to the GUI requires

Re: 2.2.7

2007-09-27 Thread François
2007/9/27, William A. Rowe, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [...] Here at [EMAIL PROTECTED] we are trying to create a better server, and having fun in the process. As long as we don't splinter the effort of improving httpd server or make more work for the project members, we'll all have fun at it.

Re: 2.2.7

2007-09-27 Thread Rich Bowen
Regarding the threatening mail from Roy T. Fielding, : There would not be a windows version of Apache without Bill's efforts to keep it alive, and there won't be one in the future if windows developers refuse to participate in the development mailing lists HERE. Really ? Do you mean that

Re: 2.2.7

2007-09-27 Thread Erik Abele
On 27.09.2007, at 10:05, François wrote: 2007/9/27, William A. Rowe, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [...] Here at [EMAIL PROTECTED] we are trying to create a better server, and having fun in the process. As long as we don't splinter the effort of improving httpd server or make more work for the

Re: 2.2.7

2007-09-27 Thread François
2007/9/27, Rich Bowen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Um ... No, that's not at all what's being said. Quite apart from the history of the founding of that company ... but that's utterly irrelevant here. Companies aren't participants in Apache projects. Individuals are. IMHO, this kind of subtleties

RE: 2.2.7

2007-09-27 Thread Herring, Ed
Very well put Rich. Ed Herring AMR2 BaR Administrator 512-314-1133 Cell Phone 512-917-8480 From: Rich Bowen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2007 8:39 AM To: dev@httpd.apache.org Subject: Re: 2.2.7

Re: 2.2.7

2007-09-27 Thread Jorge Schrauwen
Again, Steffens contributions would be very welcomed *here* if this whole AL thing were just not that misleading - hey, with some effort he could e.g. help out constructively by building these binaries in a transparent and documented way *here* and we could even distribute them from

Re: 2.2.7

2007-09-27 Thread Ruediger Pluem
On 09/27/2007 05:04 PM, François wrote: 2007/9/27, Rich Bowen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Um ... No, that's not at all what's being said. Quite apart from the history of the founding of that company ... but that's utterly irrelevant here. Companies aren't participants in Apache projects.

Re: 2.2.7

2007-09-27 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Sep 27, 2007, at 11:04 AM, François wrote: 2007/9/27, Rich Bowen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Furthermore, Apache for Windows will only continue to exist if there is a steady flow of these volunteers. This (dev@) is the forum in which they operate. This, also, is not a threat, but a plain

x64 binary build instructions was Re: 2.2.7

2007-09-27 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
On Sep 27, 2007 9:22 AM, Jorge Schrauwen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I could provide x64 binaries if there is interest in them. I usually push them out to my site within a week of the source release. I'm not 100% sure my method of creating them is the same as the ASF's but I can change my way if

Re: x64 binary build instructions was Re: 2.2.7

2007-09-27 Thread Jorge Schrauwen
My method is documentated here: http://www.blackdot.be/?inc=apache/knowledge/tutorials/x64 It is on my wiki todo list but school is keeping me busy + the weekends are going to some stuff that is earning me money. My method has evolved slightly but not very much just minor tweaks to make things

Re: 2.2.7

2007-09-27 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Erik Abele wrote: Sure, we all have to pay our bills but you're overlooking a difference: Nick just replied to an inquiry offering his (and others services); he doesn't advertise any revenue-generating site after every release etc. etc... ;-0 Nick's comment didn't even mention he does this

Re: x64 binary build instructions was Re: 2.2.7

2007-09-27 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Just for reference, Jorge's been instrumental in providing feedback that has made it easier (not trivial, yet) to build for x64 on Windows. There's actually a build log sitting off in http://people.apache.org/~wrowe/ if anyone is interested in how noisy the 64 bit builds still are on win32, we

Re: 2.2.7

2007-09-27 Thread Erik Abele
On 27.09.2007, at 17:04, François wrote: 2007/9/27, Erik Abele [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Again, Steffens contributions would be very welcomed *here* if this whole AL thing were just not that misleading - hey, with some effort he could e.g. help out constructively by building these binaries in a

Re: 2.2.7

2007-09-27 Thread Erik Abele
On 28.09.2007, at 01:28, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: Erik Abele wrote: Sure, we all have to pay our bills but you're overlooking a difference: Nick just replied to an inquiry offering his (and others services); he doesn't advertise any revenue-generating site after every release etc.

Re: 2.2.7

2007-09-26 Thread Ruediger Pluem
On 09/26/2007 03:11 PM, Jim Jagielski wrote: I'd like for us to consider a release of 2.2.7 in October to address the Windows file handle issues as well some other fixes that would be useful to get out quickly... +1 as soon as the Windows file handle issues are fixed in APR and probably in

Re: 2.2.7

2007-09-26 Thread Nick Kew
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 18:15:06 +0200 Ruediger Pluem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am not quite sure if the proxy patches Nick is currently working on will fit into this timescale. Depending on their importance we might need to have a look on the timescale again. Of course it puts pressure on the

Re: 2.2.7

2007-09-26 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Jim Jagielski wrote: I'd like for us to consider a release of 2.2.7 in October to address the Windows file handle issues as well some other fixes that would be useful to get out quickly... How about 2 :) I expect to have Windows fixes ready to backport next week after the perlfolk confirm my

Re: 2.2.7

2007-09-26 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Sep 26, 2007, at 12:50 PM, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: Jim Jagielski wrote: I'd like for us to consider a release of 2.2.7 in October to address the Windows file handle issues as well some other fixes that would be useful to get out quickly... How about 2 :) I expect to have Windows

Re: 2.2.7

2007-09-26 Thread Steffen
- Original Message - From: William A. Rowe, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: dev@httpd.apache.org Sent: Wednesday, 26 September, 2007 18:50 Subject: Re: 2.2.7 Jim Jagielski wrote: I'd like for us to consider a release of 2.2.7 in October to address the Windows file handle issues as well some

Re: 2.2.7

2007-09-26 Thread Steffen
September, 2007 21:05 Subject: Re: 2.2.7 There is the ASF statement/promise: Modules compiled for Apache 2.2 should continue to work for all 2.2.x releases. So I expect that modules have *not* to be new compiled. It is quite confusing for our users en authors have to maintain in most cases up

Re: 2.2.7

2007-09-26 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Steffen wrote: There is the ASF statement/promise: Modules compiled for Apache 2.2 should continue to work for all 2.2.x releases. ***SHOULD*** is the operative word. There are always exceptions. I have a half dozen examples where I've abused the microsoft foundation classes in my code

Re: 2.2.7

2007-09-26 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Steffen wrote: I want to give attention to http://bahumbug.wordpress.com/2007/09/07/apache-226/ May be agood time to reconsider the depency for example with APR. Actually, I'm a fan of that idea - but not in the httpd 2.2.x cycle. It would be great to see 2.4.0 (3.0.0?) presume the latest

Re: 2.2.7

2007-09-26 Thread Steffen
PROTECTED] To: dev@httpd.apache.org Sent: Wednesday, 26 September, 2007 21:42 Subject: Re: 2.2.7 Steffen wrote: There is the ASF statement/promise: Modules compiled for Apache 2.2 should continue to work for all 2.2.x releases. ***SHOULD*** is the operative word. There are always exceptions. I

Re: 2.2.7

2007-09-26 Thread Roy T. Fielding
On Sep 26, 2007, at 1:53 PM, Steffen wrote: There we go again Bill with your phrase above. I do not appreciate that you communcate like this in Public, please stop it. More and more I got the impression that you do not want AL in the scene, fine, say it to me personal. You are oh so happy

Re: 2.2.7

2007-09-26 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Roy really said everything necessary, I hesitated to even respond to you. But I'll offer this so that my frustration is perfectly clear and we (you and I, and for other devs in relation to other service providers as well) can coexist peacefully. Steffen wrote: Tom's done a great job of