Web Servers General Talk - Re: Apache HTTP Server 2.2.0 Released

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Re: Apache HTTP Server 2.2.0 Released

Nick Kew

2005-12-07, 8:03 am

smiletolead wrote:
> Hi,
> I visited the link you have specified. I want to build the http server
> on Windows from its source. But the source for Windows is not available
> for the new version. Can you tell me why are there different sources
> for Windows and Unix
>
There aren't. There are just different packages: windows users are
familiar with .zip and .msi, while unix users are familiar with
gzipped or bzipped tar packaging, and there's the issue of lineends.

Of course, chances are anyone capable of building on windows is likely
to have no problem unpacking .tar.gz, just as a unix user can extract
from .zip. So that's arguably superfluous:-)

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Nick Kew