Hi all, I've also planned hosting a shared windows dev system on eu, but we need to secure the necessary OS and devkit licenses first.
On Monday, May 4, 2009, Guido Serassio <guido.seras...@acmeconsulting.it> wrote: > Hi Alex, > > Il 02.13 04/05/2009 Alex Rousskov ha scritto: > > Hi Guido, > > Thanks a lot for the update. It is sad to see the results of many > years of work dissipating and I sympathize with your situation. I wonder > whether the demand for Squid on Windows is just not there OR it is the > current lack of Windows support that makes it difficult for Acme to > quickly monetize the potential demand. I know very little about folks > running Windows servers so it is difficult for me to judge what they are > using and what they want to use. > > > Squid on Windows suffers two big issues: the only available comm loop is > select() and the maximum FDs number is hard coded to 2048 in the MSVCRT > library. > This limits the scalability and restrict its usage to low end implementation, > and go over this is really not so simple, because very big changes in the > comm code are needed. > > My feel is that Squid on Windows is mainly used on very low cost > implementation, and only a few of user could be interested on very limited > investment. > > I have compiled an experimental binary build of Squid 3.0 STABLE 13 asking on > squid-users to test it and give some feedback to the list. After two months, > the feedback number was NONE, really I cannot understand this ... > > > > Can you say what it would take for you and Acme to resurrect Windows > support for Squid3? It might be easier for others to pitch in with time, > money, and/or hardware if the requirements are known. We can post your > estimates to both mailing lists and see what happens. > > > Mainly is not a money/hardware problem, its a time/resource problem. I cannot > leave my current activity out but I could try to fix the build environment > and after manage the work of some other developer, but the availability of > other human resource in the Windows project is essential. > > Regards > > Guido > > > > - > ======================================================== > Guido Serassio > Acme Consulting S.r.l. - Microsoft Certified Partner > Via Lucia Savarino, 1 10098 - Rivoli (TO) - ITALY > Tel. : +39.011.9530135 Fax. : +39.011.9781115 > Email: guido.seras...@acmeconsulting.it > WWW: http://www.acmeconsulting.it/ > > -- /kinkie
