2.04-dev released on August 30, 2004.
Contributors looking for a mission:
- just do an egrep on "TODO" or "XXX" and see what's there
CURRENT RELEASE NOTES:
- This is a developer release, indicated by the "-dev" suffix on the version string. We believe the core interfaces to be stable, but some portions of the API may still need significant modification. Thus, binary/source compatibility may be broken from one developer release to the next. In particular the version numbering rules specified at
http://apr.apache.org/versioning.html
do not apply to developer releases.
RELEASE SHOWSTOPPERS:
CURRENT VOTES:
- Should we switch to EU::MM for determining the full path to perl? The problem is that some folks move their perl binary post-installation, but never adjust Config.pm. EU::MM is smart, by accepting a full path in $^X or by searching the user's $PATH for $^X, before resorting to Config.pm. However, if we change apreq2, we should also lobby test-dev to adopt the same solution for Apache::Test. Otherwise our test suite will likely fail, even though the rest of the perl build system will presumably still work.
+1: joes 0: -1:
+1: joes, randyk, stas 0: -1:
TODO:
- in glue/perl/t/apreq/cgi.t on Win32, printing to the error log hangs if the strings involved are about 10000 in size. This doesn't occur in the env/cgi tests - why?
- Why must fprintf(stderr, ...), rather than apr_file_printf(err, ...), be used on Win32 in cgi_log() of src/apreq_env.c?
- The current tests don't cover these functions, so add CuTest tests for them:
- CuTest needs va_arg to print comments for a failed unit test.
- Get env/ (Apache::Test) tests to work for --with-apache2-src option.
- Bring Perl documentation up to speed: Table.pod, and Error.pod. These docs either need to be written, or they require Test::Inline tests to verify their API.
- Write parser/hook API documentation, and add perl glue for the API.
- Add XForms logic to the mfd parser.
- symbol exports files:
- aix needs .exp files
- Install the html dox during "make install". Should we do this for the doxy manpages also?
- Rework glue/perl build system to use apreq2-config instead of relying on paths like "../../src".
- Taint checks need to be extended to APR objects, like $upload->bb and $upload->info. We may need be able to do that with additional typemaps.
OPEN ISSUES:
- Should we bundle an apr-based "application/xml" parser? If so, how should we parse the xml data into an apr_table?
BUGS:
- Fix build automake/libtool/autoconf build system so it works properly on OSX & AIX.
WISH LIST:
- I [joes] wish folks would contribute some glue code for one of these:
- php,
- Rivet,
- mod_dtcl,
- mod_python,
- mod_jk,
- tomcat,
- mod_ruby,
- mod_parrot.