[Bug 70114] README outdated (“the mos t popular web server on the Internet”)

https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D70114

Philippe Cloutier <[email protected]> changed:

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--- Comment #3 from Philippe Cloutier <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to Rich Bowen from comment #1)
> (In reply to Philippe Cloutier from comment #0)
> > By the way:
> > 1. Even in technical circles, very few know the NCSA HTTP Server.
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> That does not make the statement inaccurate.
You are correct. The point was it is unhelpful, as virtually no one knows=
=E2=80=95let
alone uses=E2=80=95the NCSA HTTP Server nowadays. It is certainly not somet=
hing of the
importance one would expect to find in the README=E2=80=99s second sentence.

Note that =E2=80=9CNCSA=E2=80=9D has multiple senses, and the USA=E2=80=99s=
 National Center for
Supercomputing Applications calls its HTTP Server =E2=80=9CNCSA HTTPd=E2=80=
=9D.

> > 2. The paragraph=E2=80=99s last sentence suggests httpd is not yet =E2=
=80=9Crobust,
> > commercial-grade, standards-based server with freely available
> > source code=E2=80=9D.
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> No, it does not suggest that at all. It suggests that these are tenets by
> which design decisions are made.
Right, but that does not prevent that saying the developers aim to develop x
implies x has yet to be developed.

(In reply to Rich Bowen from comment #2)
> Fixed in trunk r1935466 and r1935467.
Thank you Rich

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