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

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

Toni Mueller wrote:

> ugh - I thought that one should deduce the location from the other
> path settings instead. IFF apxs really needs to be there before
> "real" compilation starts, then I'm out of ideas. Btw, before trying
> "find", trying "locate" could be MUCH MUCH faster to be sure.

The problem with "locate" is if the user doesn't run "updatedb" for a 
long time, it's out of date, and will return false-positives.  "find" 
will work every time.

> When using Debian, I'm currently only running potato for some systems
> I don't want to/cannot touch, and sid otherwise. But woody is not bad,
> too. Nice to hear someone using Debian at all!

I used to run sid, until I got burnt bad with a messed up dpkg.  The 
problem is, I like woody as a stable sid.  But with the freeze and all, 
I find myself apt-pinning packages, and I really don't want to be doing 
that.

> He sounded like he wouldn't invest any significant personal work for
> this in the near future to include features other people might like
> to see. I can dig out what he really said, but a patch could be ok.
> OTOH I don't feel able to code this, so I need to get on with what
> I already have.

I could take a look some time, when I have a chance.  I've never coded 
an apache module, but if his code is decent, it shouldn't be hard to follow.


> I didn't intend to yell, but you sound like fixing this should be
> easy. We'll see.

The way it works in my code is that each module is an object of a module 
class, and each has a description attribute.  So, when you ask for a 
description, it just grabs it for the module you're looking for.  Still 
just prints to STDOUT, but it works, and much easier to follow :)

-- 
Kevin