On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 4:45 AM, Seema Alevoor <Seema.Alevoor at sun.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> One of the tasks planned for webstack Apache is the decoupling of
> APR, APR-UTIL from HTTPD and introducing them as separate packages.
> This is required as many other components actually depend only on
> APR/APR-UTIL libraries
> and do not require HTTPD libraries.
>
> Now that Apache 2.2.9 has been released with APR/APR-UTIL 1.3, it is the
> ideal time to
> work on this task (CR 6715153, CR 6714814).
>
> It could be done
> 1. using the apr, apr-util bundled with httpd source but built
>    binaries moved to a separate pacakge.
> 2. using apr and apr-util sources (with the support for multiple versions),
>    built and packaged separately.
>
> In my opinion 2nd one is the better option. It gives us more control over
> packaging and version updates.
>

2nd option is better.


> We can have the following type of packages:
> 1. package containing only the libraries
> 2. dev package which contains mainly the header files ( needed for
> development )
> 3. APR-UTIL database driver packages
>
>
Sounds good. Does this mean one package per dbd driver?

Cheers,
Henry
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