“Apache 1.3 was ported to a variety of platforms, including many
that weren’t POSIX based, such as Windows, OS/2, and BeOS. On those
platforms, Apache 1.3 often relied on #ifdef blocks to acheive
portability, effectively forking the source into mainline code and
platform-specific code, making the code harder to read, debug, and
maintain.“When development started on Apache 2.0, the developers knew
that they needed a better solution. Initially, two existing
solutions were considered. One was the Adaptive Communication
Environment (ACE), and the other was the Netscape Portability
Runtime (NSPR). However, both were rejected…”
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