Re: [PATCH v7 00/12] Enhance credential helper protocol to include auth headers

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mar 27, 2023, 09:05 UTC
Message-ID: <a1d44a2f-fb3e-fa99-121d-804a884e6aed@gmx.de>
In-Reply-To: <230206.86y1pa4gdh.gmgdl@evledraar.gmail.com>

Hi Ævar,

On Mon, 6 Feb 2023, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

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> we currently have CI tests running Apache on *nix boxes, but you're
> suggesting a loss of coverage on Windows
>
> Is it really harder to just install (or even ship our own package of)
> Apache for Windows than it is to embark on PID file handling, logging,
> timeout management and the long tail of "80% is easy, the rest is really
> hard" of writing our own production-class httpd (as the suggestion is to
> have it eventually mature beyond the test suite)?

Yes, it _is_ that much harder, and it would result in yet more painful increases of the build times which have really gotten out of hand in the past year.

Ciao, Johannes