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Re: RFC: Remove static Apache module support

From: Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis <arfrever.fta_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 17:20:54 +0100

2008-03-22 18:03:19 Max Bowsher napisaƂ(a):
> I would like to propose that support for building statically-linked
> Apache modules be removed.
>
> According to issue #997 and
> http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2008-02/0085.shtml, this support has been
> broken since mid-2002, *well before* Subversion 1.0.
>
> Therefore I think that this build method is too obscure to be worthy of
> the maintenance burden of supporting it.
>
> A pleasant side effect of removing it will be that the --with-apache
> configure option will go away and no longer confuse users trying to
> build normal (shared) Apache modules.
>
>
> Further, as this change is mainly a removal of broken code, I think it
> should be considered for 1.5.x backport.

+1

-- 
Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis

Received on 2008-03-23 17:27:40 CET

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