On Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:17 +1100, "Rod Whitworth" <glis...@witworx.com> wrote: > On Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:55:37 -0500, Eric Furman wrote: > > >> try diffing Apache 1.3.29 and OpenBSD httpd sometime. there are > >> rather a lot more changes than you might think. > >> > > > >Ya, I know manpower and time, but why don't you guys rewrite > >Apache from scratch, like you did with IPF? It would stop a > >lot of these discussions and I am sure there are some things > >about even the OBSD version that you guys would like changed. > >Expect no code from me. > >Feel free to flame away. I could care less. :) > >Just a suggestion. > > Well, if you did as was suggested to the OP and diffed the original > against the OpenBSD version you would see that lots and lots of work > was done already by the devs. That's enough for a simple server in base > install. > > Maybe the IBM trick would shut up silly suggestions. They modified > 1.3.? and named it IBM Http Server. Nobody ever asked what they kept up > with.
Yes, if nothing else, this is sorta what I was thinking.
