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Posted to dev@httpd.apache.org by Manoj Kasichainula <ma...@io.com> on 1999/05/01 00:23:09 UTC

Re: [PATCH] Support for Mac OS X, some cleanup for Mac OS X Server

On Fri, Apr 30, 1999 at 11:49:47AM -0700, Wilfredo Sanchez wrote:
>   The fact is that the Unix-style Apache layout is Just Plain Wrong  
> on Mac OS, and Pretty Much Wrong on Mac OS X Server.  I think the use  
> should be able to run Configure and get a default that is reasonable  
> for his or her platform, and not some default that's kinda right on  
> most platforms.

The other side of this, though, is that people who are used to Apache
may move from their old system to OS X. Then, when they install
Apache, it will show up in a completely different location. In the
case of Red Hat, I know people who really don't like the Red Hat
layouts. They use a particular ./configure statement to build and
install Apache using the Apache-standard layout. If we started
defaulting to OS-specific layouts, we would break those users.

I'm actually ambivalent on this question. Default answers to questions
can be fundamentally hard to pick well. That's why I lean towards
putting this information in the users' faces so that they know to
choose for themselves.

-- 
Manoj Kasichainula - manojk at io dot com - http://www.io.com/~manojk/
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  -- Larry Masinter

Re: [PATCH] Support for Mac OS X, some cleanup for Mac OS X Server

Posted by Ask Bjoern Hansen <as...@valueclick.com>.

On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Manoj Kasichainula wrote:

....
> The other side of this, though, is that people who are used to Apache
> may move from their old system to OS X. Then, when they install
> Apache, it will show up in a completely different location. In the
> case of Red Hat, I know people who really don't like the Red Hat
> layouts. They use a particular ./configure statement to build and
> install Apache using the Apache-standard layout. If we started
> defaulting to OS-specific layouts, we would break those users.

Absolutely. I'm using RedHat on my workstation, and I would hate to have
the default install to behave different here than it does on our FreeBSD
servers. I'm never using the RedHat Apache rpm's, have no idea where it
put my files and I don't want to know since I'm always getting the source
from cvs anyway.

 - ask

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