Re: [Apachetoolbox-devel] Re: mod_watch in .58: improved (bin attached)

[Kevin J. M. Jr. <km...@WP...>]

Toni Mueller wrote:

> oh - I don't even know what apxs or EAPI is to begin with, but just
> hacked on the existing build script to get the paths and flags for
> the Apache Makefile right.

Unfortunately, it looks like this requires apxs to build.  I can make a 
work around (just look for the file), but the problem is that one must 
have an existing Apache install to build this.

More on what each does specifically can be had at apache.org, but like i 
said, i'm pretty sure one is for building dynamic modules and one for 
static.


> 
> The problem is that requiring people to install Perl should preclude
> using Apachetoolbox in quite a few corporate environments. OTOH I'm
> not sure that I would mind doing so ;)

More on this below.


> Hmmm... if you could mail me the whole thing? Without sources,
> please... then I'll take a look, but no promises.

I can mail it, but if you have a sf account, i'm sure bryan wouldn't 
mind adding you to the list of developers.  You could then just ssh in 
and do whatever (that's what I do now).

> I think you are overly optimistic, or it may be just your and my
> regional views. Whatever... We'll only know it if we try.

I don't know of a modern OS suite that doesn't install Perl.  Perhaps 
older systems would not have Perl, and be reluctant to install, but 
these are typically the types of groups that won't mess around with 
their httpd . . .  But a lot of software has prereqs for installation. 
Making ATB 2.0 require perl isn't too much to ask I think :)


> Hmmm... requiring to install modules into system locations using CPAN
> would be BAD (imho), but installing into a local path should be ok,
> especially when most Perl modules are only a few KB in size, compared
> to several hundred KB or some megs for the "real thing".

It's something to evaluate.  I actually use some of the LWP modules 
currently, and I was reluctant to do that.  But we can see.  Like I 
said, I didn't look into it too much.