Would windows still be supported via something like cygwin? If so then I guess I'm OK with this. I have not used AOLServer under windows much, but when I did, it was because I *had* to. Not having windows support would have sucked a lot.
Rusty On Sep 26, 2012, at 10:07 AM, jgdavid...@mac.com wrote: > Every few years we talk about what's next for the strategic direction of > AOLserver which is great. In addition to the ideas below (which are cool), I > always bring up this question: Should we dump the Windows port in favor of a > clean Unix code base, configure, build, and install? > > I wrote most of that weird Windows code, including the goofy nsconfig stuff. > Some of it was curious, maybe even clever, but in the end it was a > distraction. It's impact on the config/build process in particular was > pretty significant. Today's Linux and OS/X environments are so much more > amenable to Aolserver, with threaded Tcl ready to go, gcc/make all pretty > stable. It wasn't like that in the early days! For me, a purge of the > Windows code and then an aggressive scan for anything still not 64-bit > compatible and cleanly build-able using standard configure/gcc/gmake tools > would be quite refreshing :) > > -Jim > > > > > On Sep 26, 2012, at 7:47 AM, Cesáreo García Rodicio <cesa...@cesareox.com> > wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> Firstly, thanks so much for your work. A lot of us are using aolserver >> everyday so this is welcome !! >> >> I'm not a hard developer but in my projects it's been hard students to >> install and use aolserver). And I think it's because documentation and >> installation: >> 1. TCL API and Config Files >> 2. "Packaged Installation" (batteries included) >> 3. Some Case Studies and Complete Examples with API (something simple). >> >> Only some ideas. Great Work! >> Cesáreo >> >> >> >> >> El 25/septiembre/12 05:29, Jeff Rogers escribió: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> There should be a 4.5.2 final release sometime soon, but what comes >>> next? I've been organizing my wishlist of what I'd like to see in >>> future AOLserver releases and I'm throwing it out there for anyone else >>> to add to or comment on. These are not in any particular order; some >>> are half-baked, some are straightforward, and some are little more than >>> speculation. I know development hands are a bit short these days, but >>> maybe people will find something that interests them to work on. >>> >>> Core features: >>> - support chunked postdata >>> - api for filter unregistration >>> - core async delivery >>> currently possible by transferring conn socket to tcl event loop. >>> Would be nice to make it work for everything, by default. >>> - re-queue api >>> extension of pre-queue filters and quewait api: allow a conn thread >>> to send a request back to quewait for network i/o. >>> - move encoding and compression to filters >>> - general-purpose worker-pool api >>> - external prebinding >>> allow an external program to bind ports and specify open file >>> descriptors on the command line; would allow privileged port binding >>> with no root privileges for actual server. Would also allow restarting >>> without closing listen socket. >>> - pre-start request service >>> have a micro server that responds to requests with "please wait" >>> while server is starting. Helpful for long start-up sequences. >>> >>> Core tcl: >>> - replace various c-coded file commands with tcl equivalents (e.g., >>> ns_mkdir, ns_unlink). Main benefit is clean handling of utf8 filenames. >>> - Support a 2-phase interp initialization. Phase 1 is defining procs / >>> loading packages, which is replicated in every new interp. Phase 2 is >>> initializing persistent data, preloading caches, setting up filters and >>> handlers, etc; things that are not replicated in every new interp. >>> >>> Nsdb: >>> - add variable binding to nsdb >>> - add lob handling to nsdb >>> - support runtime db pool configuration >>> >>> Protocols: >>> - SPDY >>> - websockets >>> I have a vague notion of how both of these could work. But it needs >>> somewhat more than that :) >>> >>> Documentation: >>> - Yes, please. >>> >>> Packaging: >>> - more config examples >>> - examples of various features >>> - configuration through web browser >>> - "batteries-included" distribution (binaries including perhaps sqlite, >>> zlib, openssl, a few simple web apps, maybe php, perl, ...?) >>> - single-file mountable packages, like tclkits >>> >>> Community: >>> - dogfood website >>> It'd be really nice if aolserver.com actually ran on aolserver. It's >>> hosted on sourceforge currently so probably not much chance of that as >>> it stands, but who knows. >>> >>> >>> Anything else to add? >>> >>> -J >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> Live Security Virtual Conference >>> Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and >>> threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. 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