Re: cvs commit: apachen Announcement

["Frank J. Faubert, Jr." <fr...@sane.com>]

Hi,

    If you don't want to hold up the 1.3b3 release on this, you could just
have InstallShield call LongPathToShortPath for each of the paths as a
temporary workaround.  This will take "c:\Program Files\Apache" and
translate it to "c:\progra~1\apache" for you.

-Frank

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Jagielski <ji...@jaguNET.com>
To: new-httpd@apache.org <ne...@apache.org>
Date: Friday, November 14, 1997 10:38 AM
Subject: Re: cvs commit: apachen Announcement


>Ben Laurie wrote:
>>
>> jim@hyperreal.org wrote:
>> >   +Apache 1.3b3 under both Win32 and UNIX has undergone extensive
testing,
>> >   +and is much improved over the previous 1.3b2 release. In particular,
>> >   +the 1.3b2 release for Win32 was considered a ``developers version.''
>> >   +We feel pretty confident that the Win32 port is ready for a much
wider
>> >   +audience, and with that in mind, we are providing pre-compiled
>> >   +executables for the Win32 platform.
>>
>> Better, even, we'll be providing a proper Windows install. But that
>> reminds me that we have yet to deal with the spaces in paths being
>> handed to child processes problem.
>>
>
>Is that something that should, in your opinion, hold off on the 1.3b3
>release?
>
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