Re: [AOLSERVER] AOLserver facelift.

2005-02-07 Thread Torben Brosten
On 2005.02.06, Torben Brosten wrote: This *is* a suggestion for cooperative development of two versions in the interests of AOL and the community, perhaps with oversight by a steering committee if you like. As documentation develops that answers Andrew Piskorski's (and others') questions on "core s

Re: [AOLSERVER] core server design docs

2005-02-07 Thread Stephen Deasey
On Sun, 6 Feb 2005 23:05:59 -0800, Tom Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 06 February 2005 12:03, Stephen wrote: > > > AOLserver doesn't do scatter/gather IO. > > > Hmm, well in nssock.c, there is this note: > * SockProc -- > * > * Socket driver callback proc. This driver attem

Re: [AOLSERVER] AOLserver facelift.

2005-02-07 Thread Zoran Vasiljevic
On Monday 07 February 2005 03:42, Dossy Shiobara wrote: > If we had so many active developers and contributors that a few of us > could just go off in the weeds and play with "wouldn't it be cool if" > type of ideas, I'd be the first to suggest this kind of a code-fork or > branching pattern, to ke

Re: [AOLSERVER] AOLserver facelift.

2005-02-07 Thread Vlad Seryakov
Because it takes precious limited time and effort away from the mainline codebase. Other's people time as much precious as mainline developers, that's the attitude i am against of: "AOL is the biggest paid contributer and has the right to define the direction, others can play with new things at the

[AOLSERVER] the "something" that is not right with the AOLserver project ... was Re: [AOLSERVER] AOLserver facelift.

2005-02-07 Thread Greg Wolff
Dossy, Vlad said that "something" is not right. I agree with him and I will not be vague. But the "something" is not a fault of any person working with AOLserver. You are not a problem for the AOLserver project, you are an asset. The "problem" as I see it is not related to individual people, b

Re: [AOLSERVER] renaming 'proc'

2005-02-07 Thread Dossy Shiobara
On 2005.02.06, Dan Chak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Also, the namespace stuff isn't stripping namespace away, but simply > making the namespace explicit when the proc was defined in one. For > some reason, _not_doing_this_ breaks code in namespaces. I plucked > that snippet from OACS's ad_proc

Re: [AOLSERVER] Bas Scheffer's new app. packaging idea (was Re: AOLserver facelift.)

2005-02-07 Thread Greg Wolff
A spec document is a good idea. I can give time toward reviewing it. /pgw Bas Scheffers said: > Dossy Shiobara said: > > could implement it and show it to us, that might be really helpful. Or, > > if someone else wants to try, then collaborate together on it. But, > Instead of going away and co

Re: [AOLSERVER] AOLserver facelift.

2005-02-07 Thread Vlad Seryakov
So, for a moment, ignore the existance of AOL. What does the rest of the AOLserver Community think about your patches? I don't mean people just saying "oh, we think Vlad's patches are great" -- I mean, who else has written code that needs to run on a version of AOLserver built with your patches?

Re: [AOLSERVER] AOLserver facelift.

2005-02-07 Thread Zoran Vasiljevic
On Monday 07 February 2005 16:51, Vlad Seryakov wrote: > I just gave up participating in SF tracker thing. Sad. Well, this is what I said... People go away or do nothing... We need the "vision" statement. Zoran -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simpl

Re: [AOLSERVER] AOLserver facelift.

2005-02-07 Thread Bernd Eidenschink
> On Monday 07 February 2005 16:51, Vlad Seryakov wrote: > > I just gave up participating in SF tracker thing. > > Sad. > > Well, this is what I said... People go away or do nothing... > We need the "vision" statement. Exactly. As you wrote before: "acceptance or rejection of future ideas". It wa

[AOLSERVER] Proposed patch for nsopenssl

2005-02-07 Thread Jade Rubick
I've had my error logs get filled with error messages that look like this: [14/Jan/2005:17:05:27][30928.5126][-conn:ibr::2] Warning: nsopenssl (ibr): SSL read interrupted: Connection reset by peer This seems to happen when people cancel page requests while using SSL. It seems to happen fairly o

Re: [AOLSERVER] Proposed patch for nsopenssl

2005-02-07 Thread Dossy Shiobara
On 2005.02.07, Jade Rubick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Any comment on this proposed fix? Are you willing to put it or > something similar into the nsopenssl source? Either I can make the change and commit, or you can. I'm OK with this change - pushing the logging to Debug level makes sense. R

Re: [AOLSERVER] renaming 'proc'

2005-02-07 Thread dan chak
We're still missing something, here. This solution does not use the user-defined proc for procs that may be defined outside the tcl library, like a helper proc defined within a .tcl page. I'm going to experiment with using ns_ictl get/save durin the 'oncreate' script, and see if I can use that to

Re: [AOLSERVER] renaming 'proc'

2005-02-07 Thread Dossy Shiobara
On 2005.02.07, dan chak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We're still missing something, here. This solution does not use the > user-defined proc for procs that may be defined outside the tcl > library, like a helper proc defined within a .tcl page. OK, make up your mind. You just got done saying tha

[AOLSERVER] ns_share performance in 4.x (was Re: AOLserver facelift.)

2005-02-07 Thread Dossy Shiobara
On 2005.02.06, Jim Wilcoxson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > we're using ns_shares heavily and so are stuck with TCL 7.x, which is > no longer supported. (I know there are hacks in TCL 8 for ns_shares, > but when we benchmarked them, they were much slower. So no compelling > reason to upgrade, for u

Re: [AOLSERVER] AOLserver facelift.

2005-02-07 Thread Dossy Shiobara
On 2005.02.06, Jim Wilcoxson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe AS CGI is already good enough to compete with Apache mod_perl, > mod_php, ... I dunno. I think it already is, but this is a gut feeling. Would someone from the community volunteer some time and effort into creating a small benchmark

Re: [AOLSERVER] renaming 'proc'

2005-02-07 Thread dan chak
Quoting Dossy Shiobara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 2005.02.07, dan chak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > We're still missing something, here. This solution does not use the > > user-defined proc for procs that may be defined outside the tcl > > library, like a helper proc defined within a .tcl page.

Re: [AOLSERVER] renaming 'proc'

2005-02-07 Thread Jeff Hobbs
> Well, since Tcl doesn't have a "clone this interp" > capability, we kind of "fake it" in AOLserver. We create a > "master interp" which sources all the Tcl at start-up, then > dump its contents as best we can (which generally means > capturing the proc definitions for all procs listed in [info >

Re: [AOLSERVER] renaming 'proc'

2005-02-07 Thread Dossy Shiobara
On 2005.02.07, dan chak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, I have said from the start that the _only_ time I don't want my > custom proc used is during the cloning process. So other times > include the private tcl library and tcl/adp evaluation. OK, then this should work: --- 000-redefine-proc.t

Re: [AOLSERVER] ns_share performance in 4.x (was Re: AOLserver facelift.)

2005-02-07 Thread Jim Wilcoxson
Hi - I published the ns_share results, but it was a looong time ago, like a few years ago when we upgraded from 2.X to 3.X. I found this quote in my mailbox around November 9, 2002 from the mailing list: "The test I ran to compare 8x with 7.6x was a 10-line loop, around 400K iterations, setti

Re: [AOLSERVER] AOLserver facelift.

2005-02-07 Thread Dossy Shiobara
On 2005.02.07, Zoran Vasiljevic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I still do believe that there should be a path/vision established > which will then justify acceptance or rejection of future ideas or > ideas already sitting in the RFE queue. Okay, this is good. So, how do we define the vision? I'm

Re: [AOLSERVER] AOLserver facelift.

2005-02-07 Thread Dossy Shiobara
On 2005.02.07, Vlad Seryakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Other's people time as much precious as mainline developers, that's > the attitude i am against of: "AOL is the biggest paid contributer and > has the right to define the direction, others can play with new things > at their homes" This i

Re: [AOLSERVER] ns_share performance in 4.x (was Re: AOLserver facelift.)

2005-02-07 Thread Jeff Hobbs
> Hi - I published the ns_share results, but it was a looong > time ago, like a few years ago when we upgraded from 2.X to > 3.X. I found this quote in my mailbox around November 9, > 2002 from the mailing list: > > "The test I ran to compare 8x with 7.6x was a 10-line loop, around 400K > iter

Re: [AOLSERVER] the "something" that is not right with the AOLserver project ... was Re: [AOLSERVER] AOLserver facelift.

2005-02-07 Thread Dossy Shiobara
On 2005.02.07, Greg Wolff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We LOVE AOLserver from at least one point of view: we don't need to > do anything to it to make it work. It just works. > > In all our years of using AOLserver we have made exactly ONE source > change to the core C code. [...] So, this rais

Re: [AOLSERVER] AOLserver facelift.

2005-02-07 Thread Robert Seeger
I think it's worthwhile to say how a feature benefits you for either: * How it fits into a real world application * How it makes development of said application (or in general) better/easier My reason for this is that there are several peices of introspection that wouldn't be used for an app, but

Re: [AOLSERVER] AOLserver facelift.

2005-02-07 Thread Zoran Vasiljevic
On Monday 07 February 2005 22:13, you wrote: > Okay, this is good. So, how do we define the vision? I'm in favor of > it being a shared vision between all the constituents of the AOLserver > Community, which was my rationale behind the Steering Committee concept. > Individuals from the community

Re: [AOLSERVER] AOLserver facelift.

2005-02-07 Thread Vlad Seryakov
This is the last time I'm going to say this: AOL (rightly) controls the work that its employees perform. AOL does not restrict what you do with AOLserver, what changes you make to it, etc. I am now the gatekeeper for what contributions (from AOL, and outside of AOL) go into the core. I don't beli

Re: [AOLSERVER] AOLserver facelift.

2005-02-07 Thread Dossy Shiobara
On 2005.02.07, Vlad Seryakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] if you have to implement something not simple or different as AS > module, AOLServer architecture does not allow you to do this without > changing the core. Huh? As we continue to refactor the core, separating out the Tcl interps/con

Re: [AOLSERVER] the "something" that is not right with the AOLserver project ... was Re: [AOLSERVER] AOLserver facelift.

2005-02-07 Thread Adam Turoff
On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 16:37:54 -0500, Dossy Shiobara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2005.02.07, Greg Wolff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > We LOVE AOLserver from at least one point of view: we don't need to > > do anything to it to make it work. It just works. > > > > In all our years of using AOLse

Re: [AOLSERVER] AOLserver facelift.

2005-02-07 Thread Dossy Shiobara
On 2005.02.07, Bernd Eidenschink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It was very very sad, e.g. that it took years to incorporate one of > the different approaches for encodings/charsets that have been around > (from aD and others), or that lengthy discussions (e.g. the "Support > for non-HTTP protocols

Re: [AOLSERVER] AOLserver facelift.

2005-02-07 Thread Stephen Deasey
On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 16:13:53 -0500, Dossy Shiobara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Okay, this is good. So, how do we define the vision? I'm in favor of > it being a shared vision between all the constituents of the AOLserver > Community, which was my rationale behind the Steering Committee concept. >

Re: [AOLSERVER] ns_share performance in 4.x (was Re: AOLserver facelift.)

2005-02-07 Thread Dossy Shiobara
On 2005.02.07, Jim Wilcoxson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi - I published the ns_share results, but it was a looong time ago, > like a few years ago when we upgraded from 2.X to 3.X. I found this > quote in my mailbox around November 9, 2002 from the mailing list: Cool, thanks. > Here is a copy

Re: [AOLSERVER] AOLserver facelift.

2005-02-07 Thread Robert Seeger
See comments below: Vlad Seryakov wrote on 2/7/2005, 4:39 PM: > But you should state this on your Web site, so other people know that > AOLserver > is AOL's software product, just sources are available to public in > mostly read-only > or copy-and-change mode. I thought a goodly number of pe

Re: [AOLSERVER] AOLserver facelift.

2005-02-07 Thread Dossy Shiobara
On 2005.02.07, Robert Seeger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think it's worthwhile to say how a feature benefits you for either: > * How it fits into a real world application > * How it makes development of said application (or in general) > better/easier > > My reason for this is that there are sev

Re: [AOLSERVER] the "something" that is not right with the AOLserver project ... was Re: [AOLSERVER] AOLserver facelift.

2005-02-07 Thread Dossy Shiobara
On 2005.02.07, Adam Turoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (Disclaimer: I work with Greg on the project described above.) Cool! Hello! Nice to meet you. :-) > In my experience, this behavior is the norm for corporate use of open > source, regardless of the particular open source project under > d

[AOLSERVER] ns_encrypt error

2005-02-07 Thread Brooks Robertson
Hey All   Having an issue with nsencrypt. The module has loaded properly from what I can tell, but I'm getting the following error in my test script. Any idea what I might be missing?   Thanks, Brooks   [07/Feb/2005:17:21:13][3168.10][-conn:server1::1] Error: invalid command name "ns_encrypt"

Re: [AOLSERVER] AOLserver facelift.

2005-02-07 Thread Dossy Shiobara
On 2005.02.08, Zoran Vasiljevic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > To be clear about this, I am not simply going to collate everyone's > > responses together. I will be looking for common themes amongst all > > the responses so that the most people benefit from the improvements > > that we make in 200

Re: [AOLSERVER] ns_share performance in 4.x (was Re: AOLserver

2005-02-07 Thread Jim Wilcoxson
Hi Jeff - thanks, I didn't know that top-level stuff wasn't compiled. I might give the benchmark another try this weekend, when I have some time to setup an 8.X server on a test machine. Jim > I would *not* expect this code to gain any speed. The main mantra > of Tcl programming for performance

Re: [AOLSERVER] ns_share performance in 4.x (was Re: AOLserver facelift.)

2005-02-07 Thread Jeff Hobbs
Dossy Shiobara wrote: The danger here is that you're not only testing the performance of AOLserver's [ns_share], but you're also introducing Tcl's file encoding overhead as you're doing [gets] within the test. A lot of Tcl's encoding overhead can be nullified simply with: fconfigure $fid -tr

Re: [AOLSERVER] the "something" that is not right with the AOLserver project ... was Re: [AOLSERVER] AOLserver facelift.

2005-02-07 Thread Jeff Hobbs
Adam Turoff wrote: On 2005.02.07, Greg Wolff wrote: We LOVE AOLserver from at least one point of view: we don't need to do anything to it to make it work. It just works. In all our years of using AOLserver we have made exactly ONE source change to the core C code. [...] (Disclaimer: I work with

Re: [AOLSERVER] ns_encrypt error

2005-02-07 Thread Daniel P. Stasinski
On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 17:22 -0500, Brooks Robertson wrote: > Having an issue with nsencrypt. The module has loaded properly from > what I can tell, but I'm getting the following error in my test > script. Any idea what I might be missing? The error message indicates that it is not loaded. Did you

Re: [AOLSERVER] AOLserver facelift.

2005-02-07 Thread Andrew Piskorski
On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 05:18:06PM -0500, Dossy Shiobara wrote: > I just want to draw the clear distinction between real and imagined > problems. I'm all about solving real problems, and not very interested > in solving all of the many imagined problems that could exist. Imagined? Please Dossy,

Re: [AOLSERVER] the "something" that is not right with the AOLserver project ... was Re: [AOLSERVER] AOLserver facelift.

2005-02-07 Thread Andrew Piskorski
On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 04:37:54PM -0500, Dossy Shiobara wrote: > Is BNA an exceptional case? Or, do most users of AOLserver share a > similar experience? Are the folks who are asking for changes in the > core in the majority or minority? > > I think the answers to these questions ar

Re: [AOLSERVER] the "something" that is not right with the AOLserver project ... was Re: [AOLSERVER] AOLserver facelift.

2005-02-07 Thread Andrew Piskorski
On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 05:20:31PM -0500, Dossy Shiobara wrote: > That's been my experience as well. I'm trying to understand and > rationalize the existance of a small but vocal minority that keeps > asking for features that appear, at the surface, to have very limited > utility to those outside

Re: [AOLSERVER] AOLserver facelift.

2005-02-07 Thread Andrew Piskorski
On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 04:25:46PM -0500, Dossy Shiobara wrote: > Do you think that the only way to get people to use your code is to > have it included in the core AOLserver source distribution? If yes, > why? If no, then why do you keep bringing this up as an issue? Dossy, PLEASE. You SAW th