httpd 2.4 is coming, RFC on module packaging draft

[Michał Piotrowski]

2012/3/27 Joe Orton <jorton at redhat.com>:
> On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 03:09:08PM -0500, Chris Adams wrote:
>> Once upon a time, Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net> said:
>> > The following is going to kill pretty much every packaged webapp unless they
>> > are changed now:
>> >
>> > https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/upgrading.html#access
>>
>> Did you read this part:
>>
>>   "The old access control idioms should be replaced by the new
>>    authentication mechanisms, although for compatibility with old
>>    configurations, the new module mod_access_compat is provided."
>>
>> It would be easy to include mod_access_compat in the Fedora default
>> config for a release or two while the compat config is deprecated (and
>> noted in the release notes as such).
>
> Yup - the default config in the f18 httpd does load mod_access_compat,
> and I don't see a problem with shipping like that.

Great.

Backward compatibility is a good thing.

>
> It would be good to convert webapps over for f18, having said that.
>
> Regards, Joe
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