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Re: [PATCH] correct installation of mod_dontdothat

From: Branko Čibej <brane_at_wandisco.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 13:57:07 +0100

On 11.03.2013 13:38, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> Julian Foad wrote on Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 11:33:09 +0000:
>> Daniel Shahaf wrote:
>>
>> [...]
>>> FWIW, it would have been nice to see a diff of build-outputs.mk as
>>> well...
>> Hi Daniel. Here's the change to build-outputs.mk as seen on my Ubuntu 12.04 system:
>>
> Thanks Julian!
>
>> [[[
>> $ diff -U1 install-*.mk
> This says we treat mod_dontdothat as though it was a core module
> (subversion/mod_dontdothat): it is included in 'make apache-mod' (part
> of 'make'), excluded from 'make tools' (part of 'make' too, as of 1.8),
> included in 'make install-mods-shared' (and there's no
> install-tools-mods-shared target, IIRC).
>
> I think that's wrong. Those makefile targets are for core modules and
> this one is only a tools/ module at this point. Specifically, including
> mod_dontdothat in 'make install' (rather than 'make install-tools') may
> create false user expectations: users who don't run "make install-tools"
> except only core stuff to be installed, but mod_dontdothat is tools/ and
> not core.

We've been through this discussion before, several months ago, when I
moved mod_dontdothat from install-apache-mod to install-tools --
precisely because the former was wrong.

Better to invent install-tools-apache-mod and have it do the right thing
than to go back to the previous incarnation of layering violations.

-- Brane

-- 
Branko Čibej
Director of Subversion | WANdisco | www.wandisco.com
Received on 2013-03-11 13:57:42 CET

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