Debian - Apache help

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 09:32:49PM -0500, Christopher Browne wrote:
> Yeah, the sort of reason that would _actually_ justify compiling Apache
> from scratch would be if you needed to have the source code around in
> order to compile some extension, some mod_frobozz system...

It would appear the package apache-dev provides the files requried to
build extensions that work with the binary package of apache.

> I have to point out the Slony-I replication system as a conspicuous
> example.  A number of Windows folk are enquiring about its availability
> on Windows, but they are demonstrating themselves to be helpless to be
> capable of supporting it in that it needs to be compiled, and they start
> by saying "... and I can't compile on my platform."
> 
> I think it's important to see the merits of using compiled binaries.
> 
> But the complete inability to compile software demonstrates a vital
> "point of helplessness."

Or the problems of a platform that doesn't include developments tools by
default.

> The difference _isn't_ that those that choose to install precompiled
> things are, by virtue of that, helpless, and those that compile things
> aren't.

Lennart Sorensen
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