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James Blond
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Joined: 19 Jan 2006
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Location: Germany, Next to Hamburg
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 Posted: Thu 03 Aug '06 10:26 Post subject: httpd releases |
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| I'm a bit confused. ASF released Apache 2.2.3 as stable, also 2.0.59 as bugfix release and 1.3.37 as bugfix release. So they are on three project at the time. Why do they still support 1.3.x version? It is very old. Finishing the support for 1.3.x would force the hosters to upgrade to 2.0.x which one is not the newest. Shouldn't they use the 2.2.x ? |
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Jorge
Joined: 12 Mar 2006
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Location: Belgium
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| Posted: Thu 03 Aug '06 10:35 Post subject: Re: httpd releases |
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| James Blond wrote: | | I'm a bit confused. ASF released Apache 2.2.3 as stable, also 2.0.59 as bugfix release and 1.3.37 as bugfix release. So they are on three project at the time. Why do they still support 1.3.x version? It is very old. Finishing the support for 1.3.x would force the hosters to upgrade to 2.0.x which one is not the newest. Shouldn't they use the 2.2.x ? |
1.3 has a lot of modules for it that are still used, wich aren't updated to the newerversion. IMHO 1.3 should got a pile of software where DOS, NT 4, WIN98... is at.
2.0 is a nice clean release nothing new is added so should be apailing to host providers who don't want to update there server every few month but say maybe one per year.
2.2 is the new dog in town... I love it *hugs* everyone should use it IMO its stable, it seems faster (on windows) and it has tons of useful stuff |
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Steffen
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| Posted: Thu 03 Aug '06 12:26 Post subject: |
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The ASF strongly encourage all users to migrate to Apache 2.2, as only limited maintenance is performed on these legacy versions. They will likely fix only security flaws as they come up.
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HobbyTech
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| Posted: Tue 29 Aug '06 22:20 Post subject: |
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Well, one reason could also be that you need 3rd-party dlls, like Steffans, to get the whole thing to work right.
It would be nice if everything would work "out of the box" for home/testing users on a Windows system...but then it would be difficult to improve the functionality and security of WAMP.
Apache on Windows is always a little behind, but the newest releases bring it a lot closer. Unfortunately, for some people, it's maybe still too much effort?
I'm happy now that I figured out I really didn't have SP2 (I assumed the school's distribution of Windows was up-to-date, but it wasn't)...I can test now on Windows. And I still have today and tomorrow off from both work and school, while between semesters, to test...yay! |
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Jorge
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| Posted: Wed 30 Aug '06 10:20 Post subject: |
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| HobbyTech wrote: | Well, one reason could also be that you need 3rd-party dlls, like Steffans, to get the whole thing to work right.
It would be nice if everything would work "out of the box" for home/testing users on a Windows system...but then it would be difficult to improve the functionality and security of WAMP.
Apache on Windows is always a little behind, but the newest releases bring it a lot closer. Unfortunately, for some people, it's maybe still too much effort?
I'm happy now that I figured out I really didn't have SP2 (I assumed the school's distribution of Windows was up-to-date, but it wasn't)...I can test now on Windows. And I still have today and tomorrow off from both work and school, while between semesters, to test...yay! |
Actually you don't need 3rd party dll's,
You can compile it via MSCV6 the runtime comes with windows XP so no need to install althouygh the MSVC80 runtime does seem to give better code |
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HobbyTech
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| Posted: Thu 31 Aug '06 8:54 Post subject: |
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| Jorge wrote: | Actually you don't need 3rd party dll's,
You can compile it via MSCV6 the runtime comes with windows XP so no need to install althouygh the MSVC80 runtime does seem to give better code |
I meant in comparison to downloding the pre-built Apache .msi file for Windows x86 from ASF, then seperately downloading everything else...
...The 2.2.x series of Apache has a problem where Windows can't find the service even if you use the correct service name. Steffan's DLL solved that. |
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