[ 3rd time's the charm for this posting? ]
[ Please CC replies to me. ] I have been hacking at the Apache Benchmark source code, and I am starting to think that it needs an overhaul, and some extending. One of the big things that I would like to see would be to library-ize it, in order to break out pieces, and expose the functionality to other programs (gui's, for instance, or people who want to put the pieces together in different ways than the current program...). I have an initial version of this done, but I'm not really happy with it yet. Fix up the documentation: the man page doesn't correspond to what it actually does. Name change? Searching for anything on ab is just about impossible, and 'apache benchmark' isn't much better. ' ab - Apache HTTP server benchmarking tool' at least gets you the man pages, but nothing in the bug database. A new name might be helpful for these things. Fix up the output formats: there is a disparate variety of output formats. There ought to be a good way to make this a bit more regular. Maybe an internal XML data format that can then be translated into other things (along with, say, the regular old text output for quick'n'dirty uses). Other issues? Yes, this is a lot of stuff, and I don't know if I will have the time anytime soon, but I thought I'd ask and see what the response is:-) Maybe I can get what I do have to a good point - I think it's a step in the right direction. -- David N. Welton Consulting: http://www.dedasys.com/ Personal: http://www.dedasys.com/davidw/ Free Software: http://www.dedasys.com/freesoftware/ Apache Tcl: http://tcl.apache.org/
