On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 03:17:55PM -0700, Ask Bjoern Hansen wrote:
> [...]
> > well, if mod_mbox actually generated an xml format of some kind,
>
> What he said. The core of mod_mbox should do that
>
> With Apache 2.0 filters it will then be fairly easy to make it look
> like whatever we want and add whatever features. :)
A filter to convert from the mod_mbox core data structures into XML should
be fairly straightforward. But, I don't have any plans to write one.
I have yet to be satisified with the scalability of the XSLTs.
> In any case, it looks great. I'm definitely planning to use it for
> the perl.org archives. (They use Mhonarc right now and it sucks).
Please let me know if you use it. You don't have to email me, but I'd
appreciate any feedback. =) I wouldn't dump Mhonarc quite yet though.
Roy and I combed through the SDBM code and found some locking problems
which caused the scalability to suffer tremendously - only one request
can open a particular SDBM at a time. I am not exactly sure what the
exact problem is - our current guess is fcntl-based implementations.
(Hey, Roy just posted about it...)
Expect a patch to APR in the next few days that resolves this. There
are probably more scalability problems hiding in APR...
(I have a midterm tomorrow at 8AM - I need to go study...) -- justin
