Return-Path: Delivered-To: new-httpd-archive@hyperreal.org Received: (qmail 4354 invoked by uid 6000); 2 Dec 1998 13:58:25 -0000 Received: (qmail 4346 invoked from network); 2 Dec 1998 13:58:23 -0000 Received: from devsys.jagunet.com (206.156.208.6) by taz.hyperreal.org with SMTP; 2 Dec 1998 13:58:23 -0000 Received: (from jim@localhost) by devsys.jaguNET.com (8.9.1a/jag-2.5) id IAA28746 for new-httpd@apache.org; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 08:58:08 -0500 (EST) From: Jim Jagielski Message-Id: <199812021358.IAA28746@devsys.jaguNET.com> Subject: Re: Configure vs. configure: Please read To: new-httpd@apache.org Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1998 08:58:07 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <19981202085828.A16862@engelschall.com> from "Ralf S. Engelschall" at Dec 2, 98 08:58:28 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] Content-Type: text Sender: new-httpd-owner@apache.org Precedence: bulk Reply-To: new-httpd@apache.org Ralf S. Engelschall wrote: > > In article you wrote: > > > I'm sure a few folks are getting tired of this debate... Please give > > some feedback and hopefully we can bury this. > > > Issues: > > * Confusion as to which method to use > > My opinion: One one single method, yes. So I support your merging idea in > general. The difference is just that some people use this method as > "./Configure -file" and others with APACI options. I agree. I just don't know if the 1.3.x tree is the place to make this change. No matter which one we choose, it causes changes for half the people out there. And a 1.3.3->1.3.4 version bump doesn't seem the right for it. > > Sure, but the only "advantage" of APACI for our "fighting-against-APACI" guys > is the installation procecure (for some of us not even that ;-). Well, I'm not really fighting against APACI. I'm "fighting" (or actually just reminding) for the fact that there ARE people who are using the old method, are more than happy using the old method and will resist using the new "command-line oriented" new method. If './configure' all by itself would work the same way as './Configure' all by itself (read and follow the Configuration file, with the same paths) then IMO all arguments go away. Same if './configure -file Conf.file' worked the same as './Configure -file Conf.file' Question: This is kind of touchy, but when have I let that stop me? :) At what point does a file no longer "warrant" the "Written by " line, esp when it's part of the official Apache source? Awhile ago I added some "acknowledgments" to the helper files, but I did that as a direct reaction to such acknowledgements in other scripts and files. I'm going to reverse these, since this doesn't seem to be in keeping with the "group" mentality. CHANGES and the CVS logs already do that. -- =========================================================================== Jim Jagielski ||| jim@jaguNET.com ||| http://www.jaguNET.com/ "That's no ordinary rabbit... that's the most foul, cruel and bad-tempered rodent you ever laid eyes on"