Build WebDAV neon/serf: differences among the two

[Jan Holesovsky]

Hi Giuseppe,

Giuseppe Castagno píše v Čt 13. 08. 2015 v 17:32 +0200:

> This is a list I compiled looking at the code enabled with alternative
> --with-webdav= value.

Thanks so much for the research!  So it seems that feature-wise, they
are the same, when we integrate your patches, right?

> LOCK,		y			n (wrote myself [2])
> UNLOCK		y			n (wrote myself [2])

I guess best if you push the patches for the serf part to gerrit, so
that we can merge them to LibreOffice.

> Of these the only one I think we will need is OPTIONS, to check about
> what methods the WebDAV server has available, and in case of some
> server what special WebDAV behavior is available or should be taken
> into account.

I see - could it actually help with the problem I pointed out in the
gerrit 17189 ?

> Other observations.
> Serf vers. 1.2.1 currently in LO lack NTLM (Windows) authorization.
> Vers. 1.3.8, last available, has it.
> Serf uses OpenSSL, Zip, apr and apr-util libraries.
> Starting from V. 1.3.0 serf uses scons build system, not configure/make.
> Http 2.0 is not supported.
> 
> What I can do, if some testing is desired in LO:
> have LO compile with serf 1.3.8 to test the behavior in Windos, as well as
> to add in LO the lock/unlock in serf version.

That would be awesome :-)

> Currently I cannot build it, libucpdav1.so cannot link. I asked the list 
> [4] a few days ago, didn't press the matter though.

It seems the command line uses -luuid; but I don't see the build log of
building the apr, can you share that one too [probably best in the
relevant mail thread, not to this mail].

Thank you for your work on this!

All the best,
Kendy