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Whats the purpose of the Apache Portable Runtime (APR)?

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Whats the purpose of the Apache Portable Runtime (APR)?

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Prior to the APR, Apache code was littered with platform-determined conditionally compiled code, which made the code hard to read and maintain. In a nutshell, the APR delivers an almost totally uniform API regardless of the run time platform by abstracting away operating system differences. See An Introduction to APR 2.0 by Christian Gross.