All right you two... how about we just commit the bulk of the changes, and
then refine from there?
:-)
On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 04:55:09PM -0800, Bruce Atherton wrote:
> At 11:56 PM 2/4/2002 +0100, Branko =?UTF-8?B?xIxpYmVq?= wrote:
> >Bruce Atherton wrote:
> >>But the Subversion documentation should let the user know how to build
> >>Subversion in all its variations. If I want to build a Subversion server
> >>that supports SSL...
> >
> >Heh heh heh. Neon is used by the client, not by the server. :-)
>
> Arrgh. Chemo brain. Sorry about that.
>
> >How to create an SSL-aware server, and how to automagically compress data
> >sent over the wire, should be documented by Apache. Do you want to
> >maintain a copy of the Apache docs?
>
> Not a copy, but information relevant to Subversion. If mod_ssl is a
> separate library, for example, with its own version numbers, then you
> probably want to let the user know that they need to make sure it is
> installed to get a working SSL Subversion server (and this time, I really
> mean the server...I think...). Just enough so that they don't have to go
> wading through the Apache docs trying to figure out which applies to their
> situation.
>
> >I didn't say you shouldn't mention those options at all; just that it's
> >not necessary to go into details about which versions of what are
> >supported. Simply saying that the neon config supports --with-ssl and
> >--with-zlib, and to refer to the neon docs for details, should be quite
> >enough, IMHO.
>
> It wouldn't be my preference, but whatever. I still have to mention what
> the specific libraries are so that I can explain what [=DIR] means. And if
> doing that, it would probably still make sense to tell people where to get
> the libraries from. I'd leave off pointing to the neon docs for version
> info until they actually have some (other than in INSTALL.win32).
>
>
>
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