Re: Remote Netware support from APR-trunk (was Netware docs and mpm_netware)

On 4/23/26 7:52 PM, Ivan Zhakov wrote:
> Moving to [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>  from [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>.
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> On Wed, 22 Apr 2026 at 15:22, Rich Bowen <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
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>     > On Apr 15, 2026, at 9:11 AM, Eric Covener <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
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>     > On Wed, Apr 15, 2026 at 8:57 AM Bowen, Rich <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>     >>
>     >> I’m working through a task that I have had back-burnered for … well, a few years … of bringing all of our docs into
>     compliance with the style guide (and actually codifying that style guide, rather than it just being something we casually
>     agreed to on IRC in the early 2000s! Yay!)
>     >>
>     >> Anyways, I got to https://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/platform/netware.html and I am wondering if this is something that
>     is still in any sense relevant or correct in 2026. Netware EOL’ed in 2009, and none of the Novell.com links in the doc work,
>     nor is there anything obvious to replace them with. Is it time to drop all of the Netware stuff? If not, is there someone who
>     can work with me to make this document correspond with current reality?
>     >
>     > I think it's long-abandoned and anything along the spectrum of remove
>     > or replace with placeholder is fine.
> 
>     Not sure what the way forward is here. It certainly appears that this module is unmaintained, and probably nobody is using it.
>     Is it time to call a formal vote to deprecate/retire/remove this module?
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> Given that Netware EOL'ed in 2009 I suggest to drop support for Netware in APR.
> 
> How does it sound?

+1.

Regards

Rüdiger