Folks, please review this list... lots of silly stuff to clean up
and probably legitimate stuff to add.
APACHE PORTABLE RUNTIME (APR) LIBRARY STATUS: -*-text-*-
Last modified at [$Date: 2001/01/28 02:13:18 $]
Release:
2.0a9 : released December 12, 2000
2.0a8 : released November 20, 2000
2.0a7 : released October 8, 2000
2.0a6 : released August 18, 2000
2.0a5 : released August 4, 2000
2.0a4 : released June 7, 2000
2.0a3 : released April 28, 2000
2.0a2 : released March 31, 2000
2.0a1 : released March 10, 2000
RELEASE SHOWSTOPPERS:
RELEASE NON-SHOWSTOPPERS BUT WOULD BE REAL NICE TO WRAP THESE UP:
* Unix, OS2 apr_stat/lstat/getfileinfo were very fast hacks. These
need to be fleshed out.
* SysV semaphore support isn't usable by Apache when started as
root because we don't have a way to allow the semaphore to be
used by the configured User and Group. Current work-around:
change the initial permissions to 0666. Needed code: See
1.3's http_main.c, SysV sem flavor of accept_mutex_init().
Status: Jim will look into this
* Build scripts do not recognise AIX 4.2.1 pthreads
* Win32: Implement ap_shm_ functions
* Bill says we need a new procattr, APR_CREATE_SUSPENDED (or
something similar) to direct ap_create_process to create the
process suspended. We also need a call to wake up the suspended
process This may not be able to be implemented everywhere though.
Status: OtherBill asks, why? What is the benefit, how is it
portably implemented? Unless this creates some tangible that
mirrors another platform, then I'm -1.
* Replace tables with a proper opaque ADT that has pluggable
implementations (including something like the existing data type,
plus hash tables for speed, with options for more later).
Status: fanf is working on this.
* add a version number to apr_initialize() as an extra failsafe against
(APR) library version skew.
MsgID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Status: Greg +1 (volunteers), Jeff +1, Ryan +1, Tony -0(?)
* The MM library is built as static and shared library. This should
be set up to build only the required version.
* add apr_crypt() and APR_HAS_CRYPT for apps to determine whether the
crypt() function is available, and a way to call it (whether it is
located in libc, libcrypt, or libufc)
Status: Greg +1 (volunteers)
* apr_create_lock() changes:
- It ignores the "type" parameter, so toss it.
- The fname param is allowed to be NULL on the Unix platform.
Change it to always use the passed value, and check callers.
* configure.in does post-processing on the AC_OUTPUT files (for
VPATH support). This means that config.status doesn't do the
right thing when you re-run it. We ought to revamp the makefiles
to do the right AC_SUBST stuff rather than depend upon rewriting.
Sascha: As the rewriter is a crude hack, I would not worry too
much about it. It is designed to go away once we have
a proper build system in place.
One of the perceived deficiencies of automake is that it
uses AC_SUBST too often, thereby slowing down the task of
generating Makefiles significantly, because it applies
dozens of substitutions to each Makefile. And why? Make's
built-in macro processing is much more powerful, and
combined with the include facility, generating Makefiles
becomes simpler and faster.
* use os_(un)cork in network_io/unix/sendrecv.c for FreeBSD's
sendfile implementation.
* toss the per-Makefile setup of INCLUDES; shift to rules.mk.in
* Change the return type of apr_hash_count() to some counter type
(like "int") instead of a size type (apr_size_t). Jeff will
do this Real Soon Now (so he says on 20010121).
* add the rest of the pool accessor declare/impl macros.
Status: Greg volunteers
Documentation that needs writing:
* API documentation
Stuff waiting for code thawing after Beta 1:
* socket options patch - this is an attempt to track and cache
the various options we have set on a socket to avoid needless
systems calls to discover if an option is set or not...
http://www.apache.org/~dreid/sockopt_diff
