On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 12:10 AM, Christopher Davis <chr...@mangrin.org>wrote:
> Hello, > > I'll be working to increase Polipo's portability for GSoC 2009, > which starts a bit later this month. I'm happy to have Nick Mathewson > of the Tor project as my mentor, and I'll also be working with > Juliusz Chroboczek, author of Polipo, to hopefully get some of the > changes committed. > I thought Polipo was already portable. I've been using it with D.A.D. on a USB drive for over a year, and haven't had any problems. > > The main idea of the project centers on libevent integration. A number > of other prominent projects use the library, including Tor, and so there > are more avenues for bug fixes. To start with, integration will be basic, > but it will be enough to take advantage of platform-specific interfaces > for polling large numbers of file descriptors, as well as libevent's > portable asynchronous DNS resolver. > Cool. > > Another part of the project is to add a simple controller application > (which will typically be run in the system tray). This is mainly to > enable Windows users to signal Polipo at run-time. > That would be nice. As I use it right now, it's quietly running in the background. > > There are some smaller bits I'd like to tackle, as well, including > adding a Windows installer and autotools support for automatically > finding dependencies. > > I'm looking forward to the summer. > Looking forward to your results. - Kyle
