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Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 07:24:04 -0700 (PDT)
From: Joe Schaefer <joe_schaefer@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: On future mod_wombat improvements
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--- "Matthew M. Burke" <mmburke@gwu.edu> wrote:

> Maxime Petazzoni wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > * Corsix <corsix@www.corsix.org> [2008-04-29
> 21:23:17]:
> >
> >   
> >> My thoughts on possible improvements for
> mod_wombat are as follows:
> >>     
> >> * Compile time option to exclude libapreq2 (and
> thus not export to Lua
> >> functions dependant upon it), in future leading
> to a built-in
> >> semi-replacement which would re-export those
> functions
> >> * Proper website and documentation rather than
> just a subversion repo
> >>     
> 
> 
> Forgive my ignorance---it's only very recently that
> I started using 
> httpd (and I probably would never have if it weren't
> for mod_lua)---but 
> why is the libapreq2 requirement such a burden?  I
> didn't have any 
> problems building it (or, at least, none that I
> recall). 

I don't grok this desire either, save for the fact
that httpd doesn't yet distribute apreq2 itself.
Personally I'd rather see work go into supporting
file uploads via apreq2's bucket brigade api.  Does
lua have a data structure for representing a stream?