On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 6:47 AM, rahul <rahul at sun.com> wrote: > > | > Please find attached the DRAFT ARC case for mod_sed. > | > Do let us (Basant and me) know your comments on this, > | > | [changed website-discuss to webstack-discuss as I believe that was > | what was intended] > > evvv, I didn't know I was spamming website-discuss. > > | My first question would be - why integrate this? > > It is sun's contribution to the apache, mod_sed is an iplanet webserver > module that we are donating to apache. > > | I've never heard of it; it's clearly marked as being alpha. > > :) it is not yet integrated with apache. > > | Note that I'm not saying that it shouldn't be integrated, just that I would > | expect the case to provide a little more detail on why it's a good thing > | to have and what consumers (if any) of the technology might exist. > > (I will let basant answer it in detail) > > | My second comment is based on the relative immaturity of the code. > | Why integrate some early unversioned alpha release rather than wait > | for the code to stabilise? > > the code is stable, (has been in iplanet webserver (and its later versions)) > for a long time now. only the interface has changed.
That's fine. I believe that you ought to add these details to the case. (There's still the question of "why?". Is this to aid users migrating from iplanet to apache who might have become dependent on this functionality?) Thanks, -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/
