APACHE 2.1+ ROADMAP:

Last modified at [$Date: 2001/12/26 17:54:38 $]

DEFERRRED FOR APACHE 2.1

* Source code should follow style guidelines.

OK, we all agree pretty code is good. Probably best to clean this

up by hand immediately upon branching a 2.1 tree.

Status: Justin volunteers to hand-edit the entire source tree ;)

Justin says:

Recall when the release plan for 2.0 was written:

Absolute Enforcement of an "Apache Style" for code.

Watch this slip into 3.0.

David says:

The style guide needs to be reviewed before this can be done.

http://dev.apache.org/styleguide.html

The current file is dated April 20th 1998!

Also the file should be moved to the correct location for

future use. Q: should APR have it's own copy as well?

* revamp the input filter syntax to provide for ordering of

filters created with the Set{Input|Output}Filter and the

Add{Input|Output}Filter directives. A 'relative to filterx'

syntax is definately preferable, but not realistic for 2.0.

* Platforms that do not support fork (primarily Win32 and AS/400)

Architect start-up code that avoids initializing all the modules

in the parent process on platforms that do not support fork.

Better yet - not only inform the startup of which phase it's in,

but allow the parent 'process' to initialize shared memory, etc,

and create a module-by-module stream to pass to the child, so the

parent can actually arbitrate the important stuff.

* Replace stat [deferred open] with open/fstat in directory_walk.

Justin, Ian, OtherBill all interested in this. Implies setting up

the apr_file_t member in request_rec, and having all modules use

that file, and allow the cleanup to close it [if it isn't a shared,

cached file handle.]

* Refactor auth into auth protocols and auth database stores.

Many interested hackers, too destabilizing for 2.0 inclusion.

DEFERRRED FOR APACHE 3.0

* The Async Apache Server implemented in terms of APR.

[Bill Stoddard's pet project.]

Message-ID: <008301c17d42$9b446970$01000100@sashimi> (dev@apr)

* Add a string "class" that combines a char* with a length

and a reference count. This will help reduce the number

of strlen and strdup operations during request processing.