On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 14:15, Philip Martin <philip.martin_at_wandisco.com> wrote:
> Greg Stein <gstein_at_gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 11:16, <philip_at_apache.org> wrote:
>>> Author: philip
>>> Date: Tue Jun 21 15:16:07 2011
>>> New Revision: 1138040
>>>
>>> URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1138040&view=rev
>>> Log:
>>> Support building with APR 2.0. Berkeley DB detection doesn't work.
>>
>> I'm not entirely sure that we want to allow this.
>>
>> We provide strong API guarantees to our third-party applications. But
>> our API is inherently tied to the APR API. If somebody upgrades
>> Subversion and that brings APR 2.0 along with it, then their
>> application may break.
>>
>> Any thoughts?
>
> It will take a concious decision by the user to use
> --with-apr-util=/path/to/apr-2-config
> as configure will not pick up apr-2 automatically unless apr-2-config
> masquerades as apu-config (it doesn't in a standard apr-2 install).
>
> We could make it --with-apr2 to make it more obvious.
I'm thinking of the case where a distro packager uses those
configuration settings. Then a downstream sysadmin thinks, "they
guarantee this is safe" and upgrades to the latest svn release. BOOM.
Yes, we can blame the distro packager for screwing around with our
compatibility rules, but I'd rather not give them the choice.
Would you be okay with a --with-apr2 setting that is labeled
"experimental" and issues a warning? ("use of this option is
incompatible with regular Subversion releases") (or maybe the
--with-apr2-experimental or somesuch?)
Cheers,
-g
Received on 2011-06-21 20:31:20 CEST