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APR 1.0.0 Goes Gold

Posted by michael on from the run-anywhere dept.

cliffwoolley writes "After several years of development, the Apache Portable Runtime, which is the portability library underlying the Apache HTTP Server 2.x, has finally reached its own 1.0.0 release. If you want to write a portable app without the headaches, APR is the way to do it. Grab a copy and check it out. The full announcement is here."

2 of 111 comments (clear)

  1. Re:glib? by DylanQuixote · · Score: 5, Informative

    glib didn't exist at the time the APR was started. Also glib is still not quite useful on windows.

  2. Some info on APR ... by pikine · · Score: 5, Informative

    First of all, APR is not a virtual machine or bytecode interpreter like that of .NET common language runtime or JVM. APR is a library (collection of functions) written in C, for C programs. It contains a lot of wrappers to the real standard C library functions, because some conventions of standard library still varies from OS to OS.

    For example, the path separator is different in Unix ("/"), Windows ("\"), MacOS (":" - pre X, but also Finder in OS X). Another example is loading dynamically linked libraries (DSO in APR speech). Yet another example is threads.

    Besides wrappers, APR has its own memory management routines. APR also adds utility functions not found in the standard library, such as hash table.

    By the way, it would be helpful if someone can post a comparison between NSPR (netscape portable runtime) and APR.

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