Re: Serf 1.2.0 has been released

Ben Reser <ben_at_reser.org> writes:

> I think it's really questionable to be running such old versions of
> APR at this point. The oldest version of httpd ASF supports is 2.2.x
> and 2.2.0 comes with APR 1.2.2. httpd 2.2.23 (the current version)
> comes with APR 1.4.6. So i'd say at this point it's questionable to
> bother supporting 0.9-1.1. 1.2 might be a little more arguable, but
> I'm sure there are security issues that have never been patched in APR
> 1.2.x. Though some distributions may be back-porting things.

It's the distributions that matter. People do run these old systems,
old CentOS/RHEL in particular. Bumping the APR requirement to 1.3 would
mean these people need to build apr and apache to be able to build
Subversion.

I'd prefer it if serf supported older APR but I assume people on these
old systems are mostly interested in the server-side of Subversion.
They can workaround the serf problem by configuring --without-serf.

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