Re: Two Windows deployment problems

On Fri, 2006-10-20 at 16:26 -0700, Steve Freitas wrote:
> Another idea: If you wanted to start putting different folders of binary
> DLLs in there, I could supply the Windows 2003 Server/Apache 2.0.59
> binary. :-) Not sure if that's the right way to go though.

Alright so I'm replying to myself AND changing my mind. Not good. But I
digress.

I'm convinced that it'd be a good thing to add a selection of binary
DLLs for different Windows configurations, only because installing the
development tools is such a pain in the neck. It's not like it's Linux,
where all your tools are immediately available, no matter the
distribution, Apache-dev possibly excepted. Instead, I had to sit in an
RDP session and wait for about an hour while Microsoft's web installers
chugged away at 40k/sec on a wide-open T1, and then I had to make
decisions about what to install, hoping I wasn't going to be missing a
needed header file because of a bad choice.

So a lineup of DLL builds for XP Pro and Windows 2000 and 2003 server
would sound like a very helpful idea to me. I'd even be willing to make
some of them up, since I have access to all 3 platforms. It'd be nice if
someone with Apache internals experience could chime in here and tell us
how important it is to recompile for minor version changes, etc.

What do you think -- useful? Not useful?

Steve


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