Return-Path: Delivered-To: new-httpd-archive@hyperreal.org Received: (qmail 1346 invoked by uid 6000); 1 Dec 1998 16:07:18 -0000 Received: (qmail 1331 invoked from network); 1 Dec 1998 16:07:11 -0000 Received: from ns1.covalent.net (HELO zuul.covalent.net) (208.214.56.2) by taz.hyperreal.org with SMTP; 1 Dec 1998 16:07:11 -0000 Received: from montana.covalent.net (montana.covalent.net [207.91.27.101]) by zuul.covalent.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA14593 for ; Tue, 1 Dec 1998 10:06:33 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from randy@Covalent.NET) Received: (from randy@localhost) by montana.covalent.net (8.9.1/8.8.7) id KAA03411; Tue, 1 Dec 1998 10:08:23 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from randy) To: new-httpd@apache.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Configuration (1/4): Path Layout References: <19981201133233.A12496@engelschall.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.108) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Randy Terbush Date: 01 Dec 1998 10:08:22 -0600 In-Reply-To: "Ralf S. Engelschall"'s message of "Tue, 1 Dec 1998 13:32:33 +0100" Message-ID: Lines: 36 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/XEmacs 20.4 - "Diamond" Sender: new-httpd-owner@apache.org Precedence: bulk Reply-To: new-httpd@apache.org "Ralf S. Engelschall" writes: > Configuration (1/4): Path Layout [config-layout] > ------------------------------------------------ > > This patch tries to complete Randys work to change the default path layout in > APACI to the layout of --compat in a more generalized way. > > o there is no longer a _default_ path layout. This means > the user _HAS_ to specifiy a path layout _explicitly_. Only this way we > can avoid confusion again because silently changing the layout to --compat > would again cause confusion. > > o added a generic --with-layout=[FILE:]ID option. It has > to be used to select the installation path layout. ID here is a layout > indentifier, currently "Apache" and "GNU" are pre-defined in the file > config.layout. Custom layouts are possible by using FILE:ID as the > argument. Then the layout ID is taken from FILE. This makes the life of > package vendors a little bit easier and avoids specifying thousends of > options every time. > > o the config.layout file consists of .. sections > where inside those sections "path_variable: path_value" pairs can be > specified. Those lines are converted to path_variable='path_value' shell > commands under --with-layout. > > o removed --compat option. This is now --with-layout=Apache. > > o renamed --layout option to --show-layout to be more consistent > with --with-layout option. I've not tested this yet but it looks good. I'll begin testing shortly. I would say that I think we had better not *remove* these flags but just make them synonymous with the new flags. -Randy