On 28/02/2020 20:18, Radu Hociung wrote:
> I would recommend that rather than removing the useful bit of
> documentation that is P2MP_SERVER, the developers consider:
>
> 1. Restructure the source tree to split the src/openvpn code into
> src/{common,client,server}
>
> 2. Remove the configure --disable-server option, but add Makefile rules
> to build separate client, server and combined binaries, while
> also enabling distro maintainers to package openvpn-server and
> openvpn-client separately, from the same tarball. The combined
> binary can be used to build drop-in replacement packages.
>
> 3. Improve the test suite to verify the inter-operability of the
> 3 binaries.
>
> 4. Separate the manpage into a server and a client edition.I've not had the capacity to go through your detailed mail too closely. But I consider these 4 points to be a reasonable TL;DR version. Yes, this all sounds lovely. But I wonder who will have time to work on such work? This work will require quite some efforts to avoid duplicating too much of what already exists in options.c and openvpn.c; which would be the starting point for such a task. In addition, such a change has a big possibility to break a lot of existing configurations via package upgrades - as in this case the unified openvpn will no longer exists but be split into two different binaries. To be honest, I think it makes more sense to put efforts into the OpenVPN 3 code base, which already is ready for such a split. On top of getting such a split in place, you would get a higher performance as the OpenVPN 3 code is more efficient than OpenVPN 2.x. But OpenVPN 3 does not support all the use cases OpenVPN 2.x does. I hate to be so pessimistic, but I doubt any of the current core OpeVPN community developers will have capacity to get such a job done in the near future. We already struggle to get the current open patches for review processed, in addition to get OpenVPN 2.5 ready. More people helping out reviewing patches thoroughly would certainly help us move forward. Btw, in regards to the man page. On my plate, in time for the 2.5 release, I will redo the formatting of the man page from ?roff format to some .rst files (and parse that to ?roff format during packaging). This is just the first step to get the man page in an easier editable format than what it is today. -- kind regards, David Sommerseth OpenVPN Inc
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