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Subject: Re: Mixing Apache and Mozilla
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On Friday, February 23, 2001, at 12:05 PM, Jon Smirl wrote:
> <snip>

> What are the advantages to maintaining two libraries doing the same thing
> with slightly different APIs? Portable run-times are a lot of work, NSPR 
> is
> 68KB times the number of platforms it works on. Supporting a portable
> run-times is a permanent time sink, every time a new OS version is released
> the PR has to be tweaked. I'm sure a new round of tweaking will be needed
> for Windows XP.

> Are there technical objections to NSPR from the Apache side?

> If Apache will come on to the NSPR bandwagon my next target will be
> Xerces/Xalan. They're building yet another portable run-time.

I think that the main reasons for the resistance you are seeing are:

- apr is well along the development path
- switching Apache 2.0 from apr to NSPR would set Apache back at least 6 
months, and it's already behind schedule. (As Greg pointed out).

I think that those 2 reasons far outweigh any technical objections that 
people might have.

-Fitz