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Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 09:03:00 +1000
From: Stas Bekman <stas@stason.org>
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To: Geoffrey Young <geoff@modperlcookbook.org>
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Subject: Re: apache 2.0 vs 2.1
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Geoffrey Young wrote:
> is there some generic way we want to think about integrating changes 
> between apache 2.0 and 2.1?
> 
> what is particularly piquing my interest (today) is the aaa stuff.  I 
> wrote a patch that added the different AUTH_* constants to 
> Apache::Const, but it clearly needs to be separated out somehow since 
> mod_auth.h doesn't exist in 2.0.  same with ap_register_provider and 
> some other functions that are useful for hooking into the new aaa scheme.
> 
> so, what do we do?  not support 2.1 yet?  write in a bunch of ifdefs 
> surrounding the new routines?  create new routines in the generation 
> thingies that recognize the MMN and do the right thing?

We can't really support 2.1. If I understand correctly all features committed 
to 2.1 are experemental and can be removed at any moment. Currently if you 
want to add a new feature to 2.x you go and commit it to the 2.1 (HEAD) trunk. 
Then people vote if this feature is good/wanted and then it gets backported to 
2.0.

If you want a particular feature to be in 2.0 you have to advocate httpd 
commiters to vote 3 +1 (and no -1s) and then it'll go into 2.0 and then we can 
support it.

You may want to run this through httpd-dev, just in case that my understanding 
of their approach is wrong.

I thought that aaa was already in 2.0. Isn't that the case?

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