Removing old Windows binaries

[Steve Hay <st...@googlemail.com>]

Since there seems to be no interest out there for Windows binaries
[1], should we stop advertising the old ones which are currently
available? After all, even MS compilers are now freely available, and
it isn't difficult to build mod_perl (or httpd and perl).

The old (5.8.x) builds on
http://archive.apache.org/dist/perl/win32-bin are so far out of date
as to be a bit of an embarrassment now. Simply not providing binaries
looks better than providing hugely out of date ones.

The only thing that does need to be retained is the Win32 port of the
apxs tool, which I recently uploaded a 0.7 version of (with a minor
warnings fix) at http://users.perl5.git.perl.org/~steveh/. Should we
get that moved across to http://archive.apache.org/dist/perl/win32-bin
and remove the old stuff (or at least move it into an 'archive' folder
of some kind)?

[1] http://marc.info/?t=133702618800001&r=1&w=2

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Re: Removing old Windows binaries

[Steve Hay <st...@googlemail.com>]

On 27 May 2012 20:16, Steve Hay <st...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Since there seems to be no interest out there for Windows binaries
> [1], should we stop advertising the old ones which are currently
> available? After all, even MS compilers are now freely available, and
> it isn't difficult to build mod_perl (or httpd and perl).
>
> The old (5.8.x) builds on
> http://archive.apache.org/dist/perl/win32-bin are so far out of date
> as to be a bit of an embarrassment now. Simply not providing binaries
> looks better than providing hugely out of date ones.
>
> The only thing that does need to be retained is the Win32 port of the
> apxs tool, which I recently uploaded a 0.7 version of (with a minor
> warnings fix) at http://users.perl5.git.perl.org/~steveh/. Should we
> get that moved across to http://archive.apache.org/dist/perl/win32-bin
> and remove the old stuff (or at least move it into an 'archive' folder
> of some kind)?
>

(I meant to be referring to http://perl.apache.org/dist/win32-bin/ in
the above.) Is anyone with access to that site willing to move the old
5.8 binaries into an archive folder and put the new apxs_win32-0.7 in
place? I would do it myself but I'm not aware of having acces to the
machine so I will have to leave it up to other devs...

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