Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 10:06:25 -0800 (PST)
From: Dean Gaudet <dgaudet@arctic.org>
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Subject: Re: Painful changes.  :-)
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hmm... if you're going to return an ap_status_t then you should be
checking it.  there's no error which can be returned (because there's no
such thing as an out of memory error)... so i don't see the point in doing
this...

Dean

On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Ryan Bloom wrote:

> 
> I have spent the last half day changing the parameter order for some of
> the functions we moved from Apache to APR.  I started with the changes
> that didn't really affect too many people, and those have been committed.
> Now, I am modifying the tables logic.  This will be a truly painful change
> for our module writers.  I have updated all of the standard modules, but I
> am wary of committing this.
> 
> This is a HUGE change, and it will break every module out there, and for
> big modules, it could cause people to spend days finding all of our
> parameter re-ord's.  I would like input on this before I commit it.
> 
> The latest patch (which only gets three funcs, I believe) can be found at
> http://www.ntrnet.net/~rbb/apache/bigchange.diff
> 
> Please let me know what you think about continuing this project.  I am
> having doubts.  :-)
> 
> Ryan
> 
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