Hello everyone, as some of you already know we are moving forward to Monkey v1.2 release and there is no evolution without sacrifice. This is not an apocalyptic message just a formal confirmation that plugins Liana_SSL based on MatrixSSL and Palm are being dropped.
Liana_SSL ---------------- Liana provides the networking layer to Monkey and its _SSL version the networking layer with SSL encryption capabilities. The first version of this plugin was built on top of MatrixSSL library but this last one is not well maintained and there is no community involved on that product, what that means ? that nobody cares about it and integrate in a Linux distribution is a pain so we cannot be stuck on that anymore. Jonathan (zeus) from our community was doing a good job packaging the latest version in our repository, but MatrixSSL continue be a problem. After review some open sourced SSL options, I found that PolarSSL is the best one that fit our needs. Because of: - open source - well maintained in Linux distributions - lightweight so it fill well in embedded Linux environments - years of work supported by a community Besides that, there is a concern about how that library can impact Duda I/O (web services framework that runs on top of Monkey). Because the web services created by people can be closed... what happen if the service links to PolarSSL through Duda LGPL code ? answer: nothing. As PolarSSL works under Monkey and Monkey under Duda, there is no problem in linking or licensing issues, this have been confirmed by PolarSSL team after talk to their lawyer, so we are pretty good. Sonny Karlsson have provided yesterday a new plugin named PolarSSL (good job!), so everything is ok for the next step. Palm -------- The palm application server born as an experiment to see how the dynamic content could be serve from a Python application server capable to run any scripting application or binaries such as common CGIs. This project worked partially and never saw the light as expected, it could be interesting to retake the project at some point but we need a strong solution for dynamic content generation from now and thanks to Sonny Karlsson and Lauri Kasanen we have FastCGI and CGI plugins available for everybody. that's all for now, have a good week -- Eduardo Silva http://edsiper.linuxchile.cl http://www.monkey-project.com
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