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Date:      Fri, 2 Oct 1998 06:59:20 +0200
From:      Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com>
To:        John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>, Andreas Klemm <andreas@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, Dirk Froemberg <ibex@physik.TU-Berlin.DE>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/www/apache13-php3 Makefile ports/www/apache13-php3/files         md5 configure.patch ports/www/apache13-php3/patches patch-aa         patch-ab patch-am patch-an ports/www/apache13-php3/patches.modssl         patch-aa patch-ab patch-
Message-ID:  <19981002065920.B1941@klemm.gtn.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9809301356380.2242-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu>; from John Fieber on Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 02:02:07PM -0500
References:  <199809301816.LAA11574@freefall.freebsd.org> <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9809301356380.2242-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu>

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On Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 02:02:07PM -0500, John Fieber wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Andreas Klemm wrote:
> 
> > andreas     1998/09/30 11:16:08 PDT
> > 
> >   Modified files:
> >     www/apache13-php3    Makefile 
> 
> [...]
> 
> Maybe somebody can clarify this for me...I thought one of the
> great advances of Apache 1.3 was the ability to build modules
> separately from the server, so I'm wondering why we have this
> proliferation of apache ports with various module combinations.
> Is it not possible to have a (php3|ssl) module port that simply
> has a build and runtime dependency on the base Apache port?

Well, that might be possible. But the crux is, that we don't
want only to build  pure apache modssl, php3, xxxx ports, but
also mixtures of that.

In an ideal world we would have one port maintainer for the
apache port and perhaps one port that handles all of this.

But Ralf Engelschall for example wants to keep his version
of apache-modssl port as a pure modssl port and wants to
maintain it him self, so we are kind of split here.

I think the first step would be, to agree / rely on one
apache port maintainer and to give him the chance to 
put it all in one port, or maybe two or three, if people want
to have precompiled packages of apache-php3 and  apache-modssl.

The latter is another thing, why people might want to hae several
apache ports since this gives you fine precompiled packages on
ftp server and FreeBSD CD-Rom.

Best regards

	Andreas ///


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