[pkg-lighttpd] lighttpd-dev package?

[Anthony L. Awtrey]

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On 08/03/2012 01:06 PM, Anthony L. Awtrey wrote:
> I'll pop on the lighttpd list and point them over here to see if 
> anyone there can weigh in on the topic.

I did and they did! I'm updating this thread to keep the next guy from
chasing this issue.


On 08/03/2012 02:43 PM, Stefan Bühler wrote:
> As lighttpd is not a library, there was no focus on providing a 
> stable api. This means that code accesses members of structs 
> directly and so on, and each change in a struct breaks the binary 
> api (even adding new members can break stuff if the struct is used 
> in an array).
> 
> This is not something we intend to change.
> 
> I can see that you don't like to repackage for new lighttpd 
> versions, but I think it is the only way that works rights now. 
> (Given that we don't have many releases, and don't change much, 
> this shouldn't be much of a problem).
> 
> 
> If you really want to work on a -dev package, you need to compile 
> the core functions as library (there is some stuff in the build 
> systems, that should already do this if NO_RDYNAMIC is set). This 
> library should have a version info, which needs to get bumped with 
> each binary api change (or just for every change), and should be 
> put in an extra liblighttpdX package, which changes the name with 
> each bump. The headers should probably be exported in a lighttpd/ 
> subdirectory.
> 
> I'm pretty sure it isn't worth the effort.


I am satisfied. Unfortunately, I am also stuck with
Apache. Thanks anyway!

Tony
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