Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-httpd-test-dev-archive@httpd.apache.org Received: (qmail 17387 invoked by uid 500); 31 Jul 2003 07:17:08 -0000 Mailing-List: contact test-dev-help@httpd.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk Reply-To: test-dev@httpd.apache.org list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Delivered-To: mailing list test-dev@httpd.apache.org Received: (qmail 17369 invoked from network); 31 Jul 2003 07:17:07 -0000 Message-ID: <3F28C22A.9070404@stason.org> Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 09:15:54 +0200 From: Stas Bekman Organization: Hope, Humanized User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3.1) Gecko/20030428 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: test-dev@httpd.apache.org Subject: Re: apxs on Win32 References: <3F268A0D.2020205@stason.org> <3F2692F6.3050405@stason.org> <3F28174A.5080308@stason.org> <3F284830.5050209@stason.org> <3F284E28.804@stason.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N Randy Kobes wrote: > On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Stas Bekman wrote: > > >>Randy Kobes wrote: > > [ .. ] > >>>That's what I was thinking - sorry, I should have been clearer. >>>ppm has a feature that, when one installs a ppm package, a script >>>from some server can optionally be fetched and run (by Perl, or >>>anything, actually). So what I could do for the Apache-Test ppm >>>package we have is use such a script to get the needed files for >>>the apxs script and run and install them (if the user wants) - >>>that way, a person running an older httpd-2.0 could just ppm >>>install Apache-Test from here, and apxs would also get installed > > [ ... ] > >>Thanks Randy, I did understand that. I was asking about those who try to >>install from source, without using ppm. > > > Ah, I see now ... What could be done, within Apache-Test's > Makefile.PL, is offer to get the same remote source and > configuration files to install apxs that the ppm post-install > script gets. This would be easier to maintain and upgrade, and > plus wouldn't require adding additional files to the Apache-Test > distribution. since it seems that most win32 users use ppm anyways this sounds good to me. __________________________________________________________________ Stas Bekman JAm_pH ------> Just Another mod_perl Hacker http://stason.org/ mod_perl Guide ---> http://perl.apache.org mailto:stas@stason.org http://use.perl.org http://apacheweek.com http://modperlbook.org http://apache.org http://ticketmaster.com