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Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 09:48:14 -0700
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Subject: Re: apreq 2 Status?
From: David Wheeler <david@wheeler.net>
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On Wednesday, October 1, 2003, at 07:41  PM, Joe Schaefer wrote:

> Pretty good, I'd say.  A developer's release of libapreq-2 is
> next on my todo list here.

Oh, great news!

>> How far away does a release look?
>
> The remaining obstacles are listed in httpd-apreq-2/STATUS.
> This week I've been working to ensure apreq works seamlessly
> with internal redirects, which I'm hoping is nearly complete
> (today I added some really nasty redirect tests, so I'm hoping
> they'll actually pass :-).   From my POV, the remaining stuff is
> mainly to ensure the build system works on all the usual platforms,
> adopt a versioning system (no dll hell, please!), and add some perl
> glue for parser API.  And write more docs, of course :-).

I'll try it out on Mac OS X when the developer release comes out -- 
sooner if I find the tuits (I don't have Apache 2 on my OS X box just 
yet, but will find some time to do it soon, I expect).

>> :-) Easier said than done- the pages are generated with Java
> utilities (ant), and I don't know if anyone here is familiar
> enough with ant to actually enjoy editing the apreq webpage.

Ant should be able to generate HTML docs by performing an XSLT 
transformation, I think.

Regards,

David

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