From: Jim Jagielski <jim@jaguNET.com>
Message-Id: <199712112334.SAA14333@devsys.jaguNET.com>
Subject: Re: Names
To: new-httpd@apache.org
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 18:34:04 -0500 (EST)
In-Reply-To: <34907673.BA426BE3@algroup.co.uk> from "Ben Laurie" at Dec 11,
 97 11:25:39 pm
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Ben Laurie wrote:
> 
> Jim Jagielski wrote:
> > 
> > Ben Laurie wrote:
> > >
> > > Jim Jagielski wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Alexei Kosut wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, Ben Laurie wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > The executable under Win32 is called "apache". Under Unix, it is called
> > > > > > "httpd". Why?
> > > > >
> > > > > Because on Unix, we've got years (4 - which is a lot in Interent years)
> > > > > worth of legacy to contend with. People are used to it being called
> > > > > httpd, so it is.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > Not only that, but httpd follows in the UNIX traditional of daemon
> > > > names, ala ftpd, telnetd, etc..
> > >
> > > Fine, but what about the documentation problem?
> > >
> > 
> > It's just that, a problem :-)
> > 
> > No really, I think that some sort of agreement is needed. For example,
> > the httpd.conf file vs. the apachectl file.
> > 
> > I, for one, would say that we should rename httpd to apache.
> > We should wait for 2.0 though to do that. In the meantime, we note
> > that the server is called Apache, and under UNIX the process name
> > is httpd and under Win32 it's apache. Ugg.
> 
> That isn't good enough. Either we call the Unix version apache, the
> Windows version httpd, or I sulk.
> 
> I still think my original suggestion is the way to go: call the Unix
> version apache and softlink httpd to it.
> 

Well, I think that 2.0 should be called apache as well. The best move
would be to keep things as they "are" now but after the build,
have the makefile link httpd to apache (ie: apache is a nickname
for httpd, and not the reverse). This will get those running 1.3
"used to" the alternate name when we release 2.0. We can even
say that we "strongly suggest" that people start using the apache
name instead of httpd.

Also, to be consistant, things like httpd.h should be renamed
apache.h, etc... Again, this is best left for the 2.0 version.

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