Timeline for Are "Help me get [X] to compile!" questions off-topic?
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| Nov 7, 2012 at 1:25 | comment | added | John Gardeniers | If you start going down that track where do you stop? Do you then ask why you need those feature? Why don't you use a different approach to solve the same problem? No, that's all irrelevant. The "why" of it is always the same - you're building software. The reasons for building the software isn't a factor. | |
| Nov 5, 2012 at 10:36 | comment | added | Hubert Kario | It all depends on why you're compiling. If you want to add new feature or change default behaviour of apache or apache module, then SO is the place to ask the question. | |
| Oct 23, 2012 at 10:46 | comment | added | MDMarra | I bet if you asked SO mods whether or not compiling a web server was on-topic on SO you would get a different answer. :) | |
| Oct 23, 2012 at 5:02 | comment | added | John Gardeniers | Could be on topic if started on SF but perfectly on topic for SO and should not be migrated away from there. Compiling is compiling, no matter who wrote the ode. | |
| Oct 23, 2012 at 3:14 | comment | added | MDMarra | I disagree. Compiling your own code is certainly programming related. Compiling Apache to support specific modules isn't and could be on topic here, depending on the rest of the content. | |
| Oct 23, 2012 at 3:04 | history | answered | John Gardeniers | CC BY-SA 3.0 |