On 05/05/2009 12:51 AM, Kinkie wrote: > I've also planned hosting a shared windows dev system on eu, but we > need to secure the necessary OS and devkit licenses first.
Securing somebody who will be working on that windows dev system should come first, I guess. If nobody is going to be responsible for Squid on Windows, there is no point in obtaining licenses. Alex. > On Monday, May 4, 2009, Guido Serassio <guido.seras...@acmeconsulting.it> > wrote: >> Hi Alex, >> >> Il 02.13 04/05/2009 Alex Rousskov ha scritto: >> >> Hi Guido, >> >> Thanks a lot for the update. It is sad to see the results of many >> years of work dissipating and I sympathize with your situation. I wonder >> whether the demand for Squid on Windows is just not there OR it is the >> current lack of Windows support that makes it difficult for Acme to >> quickly monetize the potential demand. I know very little about folks >> running Windows servers so it is difficult for me to judge what they are >> using and what they want to use. >> >> >> Squid on Windows suffers two big issues: the only available comm loop is >> select() and the maximum FDs number is hard coded to 2048 in the MSVCRT >> library. >> This limits the scalability and restrict its usage to low end >> implementation, and go over this is really not so simple, because very big >> changes in the comm code are needed. >> >> My feel is that Squid on Windows is mainly used on very low cost >> implementation, and only a few of user could be interested on very limited >> investment. >> >> I have compiled an experimental binary build of Squid 3.0 STABLE 13 asking >> on squid-users to test it and give some feedback to the list. After two >> months, the feedback number was NONE, really I cannot understand this ... >> >> >> >> Can you say what it would take for you and Acme to resurrect Windows >> support for Squid3? It might be easier for others to pitch in with time, >> money, and/or hardware if the requirements are known. We can post your >> estimates to both mailing lists and see what happens. >> >> >> Mainly is not a money/hardware problem, its a time/resource problem. I >> cannot leave my current activity out but I could try to fix the build >> environment and after manage the work of some other developer, but the >> availability of other human resource in the Windows project is essential. >> >> Regards >> >> Guido >> >> >> >> - >> ======================================================== >> Guido Serassio >> Acme Consulting S.r.l. - Microsoft Certified Partner >> Via Lucia Savarino, 1 10098 - Rivoli (TO) - ITALY >> Tel. : +39.011.9530135 Fax. : +39.011.9781115 >> Email: guido.seras...@acmeconsulting.it >> WWW: http://www.acmeconsulting.it/ >> >> >
