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On 14 December 2016 at 08:13, William A Rowe Jr <wrowe@rowe-clan.net> wrote:
> Randy wrote http://www.apache.org/dist/perl/win32-bin/ - but I'm wondering
> who else here at httpd is interested in helping maintain and get this code
> into our own distribution? I've shipped this for a decade for my commercial
> customers, for every wrinkle and wart, I think many of our win32 users
> would appreciate this.
>
> I trust the perl pmc and Randy would be good with this adoption?
>

Randy sadly passed away some years ago, but I for one would welcome
the adoption.

The latest version that I'm aware of lives in
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/perl/apxs/trunk

On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 2:20 AM, Steve Hay <steve.m.hay@googlemail.com>
wrote:

> On 14 December 2016 at 08:13, William A Rowe Jr <wrowe@rowe-clan.net>
> wrote:
> > Randy wrote http://www.apache.org/dist/perl/win32-bin/ - but I'm
> wondering
> > who else here at httpd is interested in helping maintain and get this
> code
> > into our own distribution? I've shipped this for a decade for my
> commercial
> > customers, for every wrinkle and wart, I think many of our win32 users
> > would appreciate this.
> >
> > I trust the perl pmc and Randy would be good with this adoption?
> >
>
> Randy sadly passed away some years ago, but I for one would welcome
> the adoption.
>

I was aware. Seemed like one more small appropriate tribute.

The latest version that I'm aware of lives in
> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/perl/apxs/trunk
>

Thanks for the pointer, and support of bringing this into the httpd distro.
Hoping you (and other perl-folk who know the code) might help review
the patches and ensure it is working well, moving forwards.

On 12/14/2016 10:13 AM, William A Rowe Jr wrote:
> Randy wrote http://www.apache.org/dist/perl/win32-bin/
> <http://www.apache.org/dist/perl/win32-bin/> - but I'm wondering
> who else here at httpd is interested in helping maintain and get this code
> into our own distribution? I've shipped this for a decade for my commercial
> customers, for every wrinkle and wart, I think many of our win32 users
> would appreciate this.
>
> I trust the perl pmc and Randy would be good with this adoption?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bill

+1 in concept, but although I'd be interested in theory in supporting
it, realistically I'd have little to no time to put into it for the time
being.