Here is a pointer to the e-mail:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=apr-dev&m=107940423312808&w=2
Ryan
On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Amit Athavale wrote:
> >
> >
> >>>The damned locking API can't work portably as things stand today. It
> >>>wasn't designed to be portable, and it was never tested in a portable
> >>>manner. I posted a possible solution for this, but got no feedback at all
> >>>on my idea. I don't have the time to work on this right now, but it is a
> >>>showstopper, and I am -1 on releasing with this issue in the code.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>Just to be clear: you can't veto a release.
> >>
> >>+1 for taking whatever the heck is in HEAD, say, in 2 weeks and calling it
> >>1.0. This is *so* way overdue. If people haven't fixed it by now, it won't
> >>get fixed anytime soon. -- justin
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Dude, the API _can't_ work. This isn't a matter of being able to slap a
> >fix on it. The locking API isn't portable, and until it is changed in
> >some way, can't be made portable. So, either we rip out the whole locking
> >API as unusable in a portable application or we fix it, but saying that we
> >are releasing a portable library with an API that we _know_ for a fact to
> >be non-portable is complete BS.
> >
>
> I agree with you on this.
>
> As a user of apr, I'll not like a major release of library (in this case
> 1.0) without
> important functionality such as locking either broken or dropped from a
> release.
> Instead users are happy using 0.x releases with known problems. If we
> are taking
> known problems from 0.xx releases to major release, what's the point in
> releasing ?
>
> As Ryan said 1.0 release of Apache *Portable* library with important
> functionality
> broken / non-*portable* seems contradicting.
>
> As far as locking API goes, for me (and I hope for large chunk of users)
> its very
> important functionality. In fact I use APR only for file-io, locking and
> shm.
>
> Ryan, could you dig out that possible solution for baby developers like
> me who have
> become active recently :)
>
> Cheers,
> ~Amit
>
>
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