Shibboleth Developers

[Scott Cantor <>]

> This sounds fine (then we could call it mod_shib and not have 
> to explain what shire and rm mean), but are you implying this 
> would just be the Apache2 version?  I guess I haven't kept 
> track of whether we intend to distribute distinct Apache1 and 
> Apache2 versions (presumably would have to with binaries) or 
> all-in-one.  Seems like having the module layout be different 
> between the two would be a pain support-wise.

I don't know if it's realistic to have one source base or not. Might be.
Probably we should merge the modules for 1.x, though.

> I seem to recall Mark Wilcox hinting a while ago that there 
> is work going on in Apache-land to restructure the way authn 
> and authz work in httpd. I wonder whether there's any info 
> about that that might guide our design now.  I'm always 
> concerned about things being in a lump when the deployer 
> would rather have them separable.  But the above sounds OK to me.

Given that they're not all that speedy about docs for released stuff, I
doubt there's much there yet...

-- Scott

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