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

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

Toni Mueller wrote:

> well, after feeling the need for different Apache versions I started
> out with something like /usr/local/stow/apache-1.3.26 as the root of
> the tree, but quickly found that I'd rather have made this
> /usr/local/stow/apache-1.3.26.<n> with n = 1, 2, 3, ... or something
> else explaining the difference (ie, module&option selections).

Well this requires the person to install it in a semi-standard location 
(like most of them other modules).  I could do a `find / -name apxs`, 
but that'd be rather time consuming.

> Which platform?

Debian woody.


> AFAIR this module still has a severe problem (imho) which is that it
> needs to place the collected statistics in a file or directory (don't
> remember which) that is determined at compile time instead of having
> run time configuration directives.

I've noticed this, and was reluctant to hard code the values like you 
did in the patch, but those are sane locations, so I just let it pass. 
Someone who needs to tweak that, can.

> Unfortunately this precludes running
> several instances of Apache which use this module on the same machine
> (bummer #1). Problem #2 is that the locations in question tend to be
> writable only by root. I'd very much prefer to have full configurability
> on all modules so as to be able to have self-contained trees which
> might eg. contain one Apache instance each, and without the need to
> reconfigure and recompile the whole thing for each instance. Just
> in case the module's author rejected the idea of spiffing up his
> module since he said it had cost him too much time already, and does
> what he needs as-is.

Hmm . . . So he's completely reluctant to update it?  Maybe if someone 
produced a patch for it, he'd accept it.  Dunno what to say.

> 
> 
> Btw, reading it with "99"
> never made sense to me - it just scrolls through despite having set
> PAGER.

Yell at Bryan.  I was accounting for this in my new code though . . . :)