Henry Jen wrote: > On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 4:45 AM, Seema Alevoor <Seema.Alevoor at sun.com > <mailto: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? >
Yes. -- Seema.
