-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Josh Williams wrote: > On 10/4/07, Brian Keck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I would have sent a fix too, but after finding my way through http.c & >> retr.c I got lost in url.c. > > You and me both. A lot of the code needs re-written.. there's a lot of > spaghetti code in there. I hope Micah chooses to do a complete > re-write for version 2 so I can get my hands dirty and understand the > code better.
Currently, I'm planning on refactoring what exists, as needed, rather than going for a complete rewrite. This will be driven by unit-tests, to try to ensure that we do not lose functionality along the way. This involves more work overall, but IMO has these key advantages: * as mentioned, it's easier to prevent functionality loss, * we will be able to use the work as its written, instead of waiting many months for everything to be finished (especially with the current number of developers), and * AIUI, the wording of employer copyright assignment releases may not apply to new works that are not _preexisting_ as GPL works. This means that, if a rewrite ended up using no code whatsoever from the original work (not likely, but...), there could be legal issues. After 1.11 is released (or possibly before), one of my top priorities is to clean up the gethttp and http_loop functions to a degree where they can be much more readily read and understood (and modified!). This is important to me because so far (in my probably-not-statistically-significant 3 months as maintainer) a majority of the trickier fixes have been in those two functions. Some of these fixes seem to frequently introduce bugs of their own, and I spend more time than seems right in trying to understand the code there, which is why these particular functions are prime targets for refactoring. :) - -- Micah J. Cowan Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer... http://micah.cowan.name/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHBR7E7M8hyUobTrERCCrbAJ9Jw7LB/YW4myDOyPiHvXLZ13rkNQCeOVbf 5INV0ApmUTuzxp8zO5haVCA= =EeEd -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
