Return-Path: Delivered-To: new-httpd-archive@hyperreal.org Received: (qmail 21257 invoked by uid 6000); 19 Jan 1998 23:56:26 -0000 Received: (qmail 21242 invoked from network); 19 Jan 1998 23:56:25 -0000 Received: from devsys.jagunet.com (206.156.208.6) by taz.hyperreal.org with SMTP; 19 Jan 1998 23:56:25 -0000 Received: (from jim@localhost) by devsys.jaguNET.com (8.8.8/jag-2.4) id SAA20789 for new-httpd@apache.org; Mon, 19 Jan 1998 18:56:21 -0500 (EST) From: Jim Jagielski Message-Id: <199801192356.SAA20789@devsys.jaguNET.com> Subject: Re: [POLL] experiment with commit-then-review To: new-httpd@apache.org Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 18:56:21 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: from "Dean Gaudet" at Jan 19, 98 03:11:14 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] Content-Type: text Sender: new-httpd-owner@apache.org Precedence: bulk Reply-To: new-httpd@apache.org Dean Gaudet wrote: > > > > On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: > > > On the other hand, if you add something that works *only* on UNIX it's > > only fair to give the Win32 folx warning - and if it cannot be done > > under Win32 I think it's reasonable that they be able to veto the > > change. We decided long ago to maintain feature (if not bug) compatibility > > across platforms. > > I am absolutely against this. > > If there's something we can't do on WIN32 that's just too bad. I'm not > going to cripple the unix version just because we can't do it on win32. > Consider cpu time limits and other resource control stuff -- we may not be > able to do that on win32 yet (5.0 we should). You're saying we shouldn't > do that period, and I'm totally disagreeing with that. > I have to agree with Dean about this, as long as we don't use it as an excuse not to find a way around it. For example, certainly the use of MMAP can make some things easier on the UNIX side if we decide that we will use that exclusively. However, that leaves a lot of OSs out in the cold, either because they lack mmap or their implementation is for crap. Sooo... we "cripple" Apache is some ways by ensuring as wide a platform base as possible, but we use MMAP when we can and find ways of implementing the same type of functionality when possible (eg: SYSV shared-memory). -- ==================================================================== Jim Jagielski | jaguNET Access Services jim@jaguNET.com | http://www.jaguNET.com/ "Look at me! I'm wearing a cardboard belt!"