Hi all, Some of you are wondering about the future of the project, especially since we're nearing a 1.0 release.
== 1.x - bugfixes and Rack-compatibility synchronization The 1.x series will focus mainly on bug fixes and compatibility with Rack as it evolves. If Rack drops the rewindability requirement of "rack.input", Unicorn will follow ASAP and allow TeeInput to be optional middleware with newer Rack versions. Rubinius should be fully-supported soon, as it's already mostly working except for a few corner-case things Rubinius doesn't implement (issues filed on their bug tracker). == 2.x - the fun and crazy stuff First off, there'll be internal API cleanups + sync with Rainbows!/Zbatery This won't be user visible, but it'll be less ugly inside. === Scalability improvements I don't know if we'll see hundreds/thousands of CPUs in a single application server any time soon, but 2.x will have internal changes that'll make us more ready for that. It could be 5-10 years before massively multi-core machines are viable for web apps, but it'd certainly be fun to max out Unicorn on those. I'll be less shy about sacrificing portability for massive scalability. Correct me if I'm wrong, but Linux is the only Free kernel that scales to monster multicore machines right now, so I'll primarily focus on working with features in Linux. Currently, 8-16 cores seems to be the sweet spot (and has been for a while), and present-day Unicorn handles that fine as-is. === Features (for Rainbows!, mainly) IPv6 support and SSL will come, too. These features will mainly be to support Rainbows!, though some LANs could benefit from those, too. I'll have to review the MRI code for those, but I'm leaning towards only these new features under 1.9.2+. Multi-VM (MVM, Ruby 1.9 experimental branch) support will probably happen only in Rainbows! rather than Unicorn. A true fork() is still safer in the event of a crash (but less memory-efficient). == Miscellaneous I have no plans to provide commercial support, but I'll continue offering free support on the mailing list (or private email if you're shy). As some of you may have noticed; I don't endorse commercial products or services at all. This won't change. However, there will probably be more commercial support available from 3rd parties after a 1.0 release. Thanks for reading! -- Eric Wong _______________________________________________ Unicorn mailing list - [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-unicorn Do not quote signatures (like this one) or top post when replying
