Re: [VOTE] 2.1.3 as beta

2005-03-08 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 08:49:52AM +0100, Sander Striker wrote: So what is failing to build? 2.1.3? Or trunk? Only on win32, or on other platforms as well? Can you reproduce? Note that 2.1.3 fails to build on Win32 because APR 1.1.0 doesn't build. This Win32 failure is *not* an httpd

Re: [VOTE] 2.1.3 as beta

2005-03-08 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
At 01:49 AM 3/8/2005, Sander Striker wrote: William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: Onward to 14 ++1 to Sander's efforts to roll out 2.1.4 ... let's get it right (at least, let's have something that builds, irrespective of it has the features folks want.) So what is failing to build? 2.1.3? Or trunk?

Re: [VOTE] 2.1.3 as beta

2005-03-08 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
At 10:22 AM 3/8/2005, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: Note that 2.1.3 fails to build on Win32 because APR 1.1.0 doesn't build. This Win32 failure is *not* an httpd problem. Mladen reported that using APR trunk worked fine with 2.1.3. Perhaps you aught to respond to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] post;

Re: [VOTE] 2.1.3 as beta

2005-03-07 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
At 07:22 AM 3/6/2005, Sander Striker wrote: I assume we are in agreement that the current AAA discussion shouldn't hold up moving to 2.2 either. Absolutely it does. Either 2.1-dev has made implementing this worse (my essentially workable proposal for 2.0 would no longer work at all, with no

Re: [VOTE] 2.1.3 as beta

2005-03-07 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 12:19:45AM -0600, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: At 07:22 AM 3/6/2005, Sander Striker wrote: I assume we are in agreement that the current AAA discussion shouldn't hold up moving to 2.2 either. Absolutely it does. Either 2.1-dev has made implementing this worse (my

Re: [VOTE] 2.1.3 as beta

2005-03-07 Thread Paul Querna
William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: At 07:22 AM 3/6/2005, Sander Striker wrote: I assume we are in agreement that the current AAA discussion shouldn't hold up moving to 2.2 either. Absolutely it does. Either 2.1-dev has made implementing this worse (my essentially workable proposal for 2.0 would no

Re: [VOTE] 2.1.3 as beta

2005-03-07 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Mar 7, 2005, at 1:19 AM, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: At 07:22 AM 3/6/2005, Sander Striker wrote: I assume we are in agreement that the current AAA discussion shouldn't hold up moving to 2.2 either. Absolutely it does. Either 2.1-dev has made implementing this worse (my essentially workable

Re: [VOTE] 2.1.3 as beta

2005-03-07 Thread Graham Leggett
Paul Querna wrote: I think it should be hacked into mod_authnz_ldap, and if it works, then work can be done to generalize it to all the authnz modules. Right now we really don't know what is required to get it done. It is all just mailing list talk and theory. The trouble is that any work

Re: [VOTE] 2.1.3 as beta

2005-03-07 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
At 10:21 AM 3/7/2005, Paul Querna wrote: I disagree. The current authentication in 2.1 is far far better than what 2.0 has. I have been using it in production variations for over 2 years now. Just the ability to use any authentication backend with Digest is a huge improvement. ++1 - and

Re: [VOTE] 2.1.3 as beta

2005-03-07 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
--On Monday, March 7, 2005 5:37 PM -0600 William A. Rowe, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ++1 - and I've always agreed. My only question is does the new API make it impossible to do simple things. ... If the new API makes things more difficult, it's a regression. This AAA provider discussion just

Re: [VOTE] 2.1.3 as beta

2005-03-07 Thread Sander Striker
Jim Jagielski wrote: I vote +1 for a beta. Ditto. Sander

Re: [VOTE] 2.1.3 as beta

2005-03-07 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
jakarta-tomcat-dev reports Gump can't build, but since they haven't given us details so not much we can do about it. Fails to even build on Win32. -1 for beta on 2.1.3. Onward to 14 ++1 to Sander's efforts to roll out 2.1.4 ... let's get it right (at least, let's have something that builds,

Re: [VOTE] 2.1.3 as beta

2005-03-07 Thread Sander Striker
William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: jakarta-tomcat-dev reports Gump can't build, but since they haven't given us details so not much we can do about it. Fails to even build on Win32. -1 for beta on 2.1.3. I think we passed the 2.1.3 station already. Onward to 14 ++1 to Sander's efforts to roll out 2.1.4

Re: [VOTE] 2.1.3 as beta

2005-03-06 Thread Sander Striker
Justin Erenkrantz wrote: 2.1.3 tarballs at: http://httpd.apache.org/dev/dist/ I'd like to get enough votes for 2.1.3 to be a beta and commence the feature freeze towards a 2.2.0 GA. As we discussed at ApacheCon in November (over three months ago), this would mean we create a 2.2.x branch from

Re: [VOTE] 2.1.3 as beta

2005-02-25 Thread Joe Orton
On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 10:22:12PM +, Nick Kew wrote: William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: As to Nick's comment, I certainly agree with your position, there is not enough adoption of APR to -not- roll in the apr/apr-util Isn't that chicken-and-egg? APR is seen as part of Apache(httpd) by

Re: [VOTE] 2.1.3 as beta

2005-02-25 Thread Graham Leggett
Joe Orton said: Hey! All you folks out there who were having build issues - don't worry, help is at hand. With *this* release you just have to get *three* tarballs configured and built correctly together instead of one! It's *so* much better for you, can't you tell? /sarcasm Three? You

Re: [VOTE] 2.1.3 as beta

2005-02-25 Thread Ben Collins-Sussman
On Feb 24, 2005, at 1:52 AM, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: --On Wednesday, February 23, 2005 10:37 PM -0600 William A. Rowe, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Uhm, no. By that definition, all the pollution spewed from typical Linux libraries would be considered 'public api.' Other platforms are using

Re: [VOTE] 2.1.3 as beta

2005-02-24 Thread Brad Nicholes
+1 on NetWare. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thursday, February 24, 2005 12:52:23 AM --On Wednesday, February 23, 2005 10:37 PM -0600 William A. Rowe, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Uhm, no. By that definition, all the pollution spewed from typical Linux libraries would be considered 'public api.'

Re: [VOTE] 2.1.3 as beta

2005-02-24 Thread Bojan Smojver
On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 16:57 +0100, Matthieu Estrade wrote: I think it's the best way. Maybe we could also provide two packages, httpd-with-apr and another one without apr How about the main release (i.e. the one advertised on the download page) having a bundled APR in it (so that folks

Re: [VOTE] 2.1.3 as beta

2005-02-24 Thread Graham Leggett
Nick Kew wrote: If we're serious about APR having a life of its own, let's put our money where our mouth is and unbundle them. As soon as that happens, APR will get packaged in all the distros. It works for me: httpd-2.1 builds and runs with APR-1.x. If it fails on some platforms, that's simply

Re: [VOTE] 2.1.3 as beta

2005-02-23 Thread Mladen Turk
Justin Erenkrantz wrote: 2.1.3 tarballs at: http://httpd.apache.org/dev/dist/ I'd like to get enough votes for 2.1.3 to be a beta and commence the feature freeze towards a 2.2.0 GA. Well, the tarballs are unbuildable on WIN32. The problem is with apr and apr-util provided with the tarball, and

Re: [VOTE] 2.1.3 as beta

2005-02-23 Thread Nick Kew
Justin Erenkrantz wrote: By this point, I think that if a super-cool feature hasn't made it in yet, it's time to admit that the feature missed the boat and it needs to wait until 2.4. Never mind about super-cool features making it in. What about the reverse? Why is APR still bundled rather

Re: [VOTE] 2.1.3 as beta

2005-02-23 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
--On Wednesday, February 23, 2005 10:19 AM + Nick Kew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Justin Erenkrantz wrote: By this point, I think that if a super-cool feature hasn't made it in yet, it's time to admit that the feature missed the boat and it needs to wait until 2.4. Never mind about super-cool

Re: [VOTE] 2.1.3 as beta

2005-02-23 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
--On Wednesday, February 23, 2005 10:09 AM +0100 Mladen Turk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, the tarballs are unbuildable on WIN32. The problem is with apr and apr-util provided with the tarball, and broken build/win32ver.awk that creates invalid .rc files. If I use apr and apr-utils from HEAD,

Re: [VOTE] 2.1.3 as beta

2005-02-23 Thread Joe Orton
On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 11:04:54PM -0800, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: 2.1.3 tarballs at: http://httpd.apache.org/dev/dist/ Thanks, as ever! I'd like to get enough votes for 2.1.3 to be a beta and commence the feature freeze towards a 2.2.0 GA. Tested across a variety of Linuxes here, +1 for

Re: [VOTE] 2.1.3 as beta

2005-02-23 Thread Graham Leggett
Justin Erenkrantz said: I disagree because forcing users to separately download APR is a bad thing as it is a 'core' dependency - you can't build httpd without it. I don't think it's reasonable to assume that anyone has APR installed. Actually, if they do, it's likely to be APR 0.x due

Re: [VOTE] 2.1.3 as beta

2005-02-23 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
--On Wednesday, February 23, 2005 5:55 PM +0200 Graham Leggett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As soon as you install httpd + APR in a system location, you no longer can install subversion + APR in a system location. This was the basis of getting vendor packaging files (like RPM and PKG) into APR and

Re: [VOTE] 2.1.3 as beta

2005-02-23 Thread Matthieu Estrade
Justin Erenkrantz wrote: --On Wednesday, February 23, 2005 5:55 PM +0200 Graham Leggett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As soon as you install httpd + APR in a system location, you no longer can install subversion + APR in a system location. This was the basis of getting vendor packaging files (like

Re: [VOTE] 2.1.3 as beta

2005-02-23 Thread Paul A. Houle
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 16:57:20 +0100, Matthieu Estrade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Justin Erenkrantz wrote: I think it's the best way. Maybe we could also provide two packages, httpd-with-apr and another one without apr No, they should be separate, and having two different packages is just a

Re: [VOTE] 2.1.3 as beta

2005-02-23 Thread Garrett Rooney
Paul A. Houle wrote: Also the stability of APR is going to matter. For a long time you had to run Subversion on APR out of CVS and I'd often update svn and then find that I had to update APR because they'd changed it so it depends on the latest APR. If APR is going to be reasonably

Re: [VOTE] 2.1.3 as beta

2005-02-23 Thread Graham Leggett
Paul A. Houle said: The one thing I'd worry about is maintainance. Suppose there's a security flaw in APR... Well, Apache is in the front of your mind, but APR isn't, so it might be easy to overlook the advisory. A sysadmin would be looking out for more than just httpd advisories -

Re: [VOTE] 2.1.3 as beta

2005-02-23 Thread Graham Leggett
Justin Erenkrantz wrote: I would be happy to switch the find_ap{ru}.m4 to try to look for an installed APR/APR-util first if --with-apr{-util} is not specified. I'm shocked it doesn't do that already. Would that alleviate your concerns? -- justin +1. Regards, Graham -- smime.p7s

Re: [VOTE] 2.1.3 as beta

2005-02-23 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
At 09:26 AM 2/23/2005, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: --On Wednesday, February 23, 2005 10:09 AM +0100 Mladen Turk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, the tarballs are unbuildable on WIN32. The problem is with apr and apr-util provided with the tarball, and broken build/win32ver.awk that creates invalid

Re: [VOTE] 2.1.3 as beta

2005-02-23 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
--On Wednesday, February 23, 2005 12:44 PM -0600 William A. Rowe, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -1 veto - there is no reason for us -not- to adopt apr 1.2.0. I'm confused why we would be so pedantic as to not adopt a current release? APR signatures were broken on all 1.0/1.1 APR 1.2.0 isn't

Re: [VOTE] 2.1.3 as beta

2005-02-23 Thread Paul Querna
William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: At 09:26 AM 2/23/2005, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: --On Wednesday, February 23, 2005 10:09 AM +0100 Mladen Turk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, the tarballs are unbuildable on WIN32. The problem is with apr and apr-util provided with the tarball, and broken

Re: [VOTE] 2.1.3 as beta

2005-02-23 Thread Nick Kew
William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: As to Nick's comment, I certainly agree with your position, there is not enough adoption of APR to -not- roll in the apr/apr-util Isn't that chicken-and-egg? APR is seen as part of Apache(httpd) by everyone outside a small core, most of whom probably subscribe to

Re: [VOTE] 2.1.3 as beta

2005-02-23 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
--On Thursday, February 24, 2005 1:03 AM +0100 Guenter Knauf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: minor patch for correct copyright in ./build/NWGNUtail.inc: Heh. Applied. Thanks! -- justin

Re: [VOTE] 2.1.3 as beta

2005-02-23 Thread Guenter Knauf
Hi, 2.1.3 tarballs at: http://httpd.apache.org/dev/dist/ builds fine so far for NW, but not further tested yet... minor patch for correct copyright in ./build/NWGNUtail.inc: --- NWGNUtail.inc.orig Thu Nov 25 01:01:34 2004 +++ NWGNUtail.inc Thu Feb 24 00:50:08 2005 @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@

Re: [VOTE] 2.1.3 as beta

2005-02-23 Thread Ben Collins-Sussman
On Feb 23, 2005, at 2:12 PM, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: That's been 'broken' forever and it's only because Subversion 1.2 wants to use private mod_dav functions. They're not private mod_dav functions. They're supposedly a public API, meant to be used by mod_dav provider back-ends. They just

Re: [VOTE] 2.1.3 as beta

2005-02-23 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
At 07:34 PM 2/23/2005, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote: On Feb 23, 2005, at 2:12 PM, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: That's been 'broken' forever and it's only because Subversion 1.2 wants to use private mod_dav functions. They're not private mod_dav functions. They're supposedly a public API, meant to

Re: [VOTE] 2.1.3 as beta

2005-02-23 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
--On Wednesday, February 23, 2005 10:37 PM -0600 William A. Rowe, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Uhm, no. By that definition, all the pollution spewed from typical Linux libraries would be considered 'public api.' Other platforms are using the construct to extract public symbol lists now, IIUC.

[VOTE] 2.1.3 as beta

2005-02-22 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
2.1.3 tarballs at: http://httpd.apache.org/dev/dist/ I'd like to get enough votes for 2.1.3 to be a beta and commence the feature freeze towards a 2.2.0 GA. As we discussed at ApacheCon in November (over three months ago), this would mean we create a 2.2.x branch from the 2.1.3 tag and bump

Re: [VOTE] 2.1.3 as beta

2005-02-22 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
--On Tuesday, February 22, 2005 11:04 PM -0800 Justin Erenkrantz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2.1.3 tarballs at: http://httpd.apache.org/dev/dist/ I'd like to get enough votes for 2.1.3 to be a beta and commence the feature freeze towards a 2.2.0 GA. For the record, +1. 2.1.3 passes httpd-test on