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. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ aolserver-talk mailing list aolserver-talk@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/aolserver-talk
