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Re: Apache2: one module or two?


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  • From: Derek Atkins <>
  • To: "Wilcox, Mark" <>
  • Cc: "RL 'Bob' Morgan" <>, "Shibboleth Design Team" <>
  • Subject: Re: Apache2: one module or two?
  • Date: 14 Sep 2003 13:07:50 -0400

"Wilcox, Mark"
<>
writes:

> Howdy,
>
> I'm not sure where the Apache stuff is at. I know the plan for 2.2
> was to split authentication and authorization services. If it's
> there it's in the 2.1 code base.

This is just a question of hooks, I gather. When I spoke to Ben my
impression was that they planned to change the hooks to implement
authn and authz. This says nothing about whether the code is in a
single .so or multiple .so files.

> If you keep in one module, you'll probably have ifdef hell. I'd
> vote to spend more time abstracting the library and then look at
> maintaing same code base.

I really doubt it. I mean, I REALLY, REALLY doubt it.

> Mark

-derek

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