On 2/24/06, Mark Phippard <markp@softlanding.com> wrote:
> What they told us is that they generally only ported what they needed to
> support the httpd port. We were the first people to ever contact them
> about using APR and porting other code to the iSeries. They have been
> fairly responsive to us, the reality though is that they are IBM and a
> programmer does not have the authority to just do "what is right" without
> having some higher-level grant budgetary approval. So we point these
> things out to them and they apologize and put them on their list. They
> have fixed and added several things for us.
The weird part is that IBM was one of the companies that helped to
create APR, their engineers (while working on Apache2) were
instrumental in getting it off the ground. It's a wonderful "left
hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing" situation.
> I was a bit disappointed when I realized that they were maintaining their
> own version of APR. Now that OS/400 has this "UTF-8" option, my hope is
> that they will eventually try to move back towards the standard
> implementation. It is just a hope though.
I doubt it'll happen, but I agree it would be nice. This isn't the
only time this sort of thing has happened by the way, there's an HP
internal port of APR to OpenVMS that has never seen the light of day
either, as far as I can tell. I'd love it if these companies would
work with the APR community to get their changes into the actual APR
source tree, but I suspect they're too set in their ways.
-garrett
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Received on Fri Feb 24 19:45:47 2006