2N/ALast modified at [$Date: 1999/11/30 00:10:23 $]
2N/A 2.0: In pre-alpha development
2N/A * Vague goal of an alpha or beta release in 1999. Commit-then-review
2N/ARELEASE SHOWSTOPPERS:
2N/A * Complete HAVE_SENDFILE work. Need to add iovec head and tail pointers to
2N/A the iol sendfile API and make it work under Unix.
2N/A Status: Bill <stoddard@raleigh.ibm.com> is working on this
2N/A * Pipes to CGI scripts are not being timed out
2N/A Status: code has been added to APR to support timing out pipes.
2N/A This needs to be used in Apache now.
2N/A * Put back resource limit code
2N/A Status: Paul Reder <rederpj@raleigh.ibm.com> is working on this.
2N/A * Port mod_mime_magic
2N/A Status: Paul Reder <rederpj@raleigh.ibm.com> is working on this.
2N/A * suEXEC doesn't work
2N/A Status: Manoj has posted an patch to fix this.
2N/A <19991103003605.A20612@samosa.mindspring.com>
2N/A * Windows NT port isn't done
2N/A Status: Bill <stoddard@raleigh.ibm.com> is working on MPM and APR.
2N/A 1. Add back ability to run Apache as a service
2N/A 2. Fix Win9* specific code in the winnt MPM
2N/A 3. Get the MPM working in multi process mode (one parent & one child)
2N/A 4. Test access logging with multiple threads. Will the native file I/O
2N/A calls serialize automagically like the CRT calls or do we need to
2N/A * Current 2.0 code is not tested on many Unix platforms. Make 2.0
2N/A work on most, if not all the systems 1.3 did
2N/A Status: Autoconf and APR will get us most of the way there.
2N/A * The module API is a weird combination of the old table and the new
2N/A hook system. Switch completely to the new hook system
2N/A Status: Ben Laurie is working on this.
2N/A * Modules. Which modules do not work yet, can we get a list?
2N/ARELEASE NON-SHOWSTOPPERS BUT WOULD BE REAL NICE TO WRAP THESE UP:
2N/A * Clean the code. There are a lot of places we used APR but didn't
2N/A remove the hacks that were required for the cross-platform code in
2N/A 1.3. We need to make the code look like APR was supposed to be there.
2N/A * Go throught the Bug DB and research the bugs marked "suspended". People
2N/A were told these would be considered for inclusion in Apache 2.0, it
2N/A would be nice to actually do so.
2N/A some code in the Win32 branch that essentially duplicates what is in APR.
2N/A Status: Bill <stoddard@raleigh.ibm.com> is working on this.
2N/A * Move I/O layering into APR.
2N/A * There are still a number of places in the code where we are loosing error
2N/A status (
i.e. throwing away the error returned by a system call and replacing
2N/A it with a generic error code)
2N/A * APRize the stat function. CRT stat() is about 30% slower on Windows than
2N/A the equivalent native Windows call. The APR call should return the Unix
2N/A style stat structure, just to keep it familier.
2N/A * Implement reliable piped logs on Windows
2N/A Status: Bill <stoddard@raleigh.ibm.com> has prototype code (not reliable) in 1.3.
2N/A Should be much cleaner with APR in 2.0.
2N/A * Switch to autoconf, et al. for configuration.
2N/A Status: Manoj has placed an initial version into the 2.0
2N/A repository. Todos include:
2N/A - Support selection of modules (including MPMs; only Dexter
2N/A works right now). Probably involved creating a directory for
2N/A - "make install" and "make depend" should work
2N/A - a tool to simplfy third-party module building should be
2N/A written. Something like apxs
2N/A - Add a lot more checks to satisfy the various platforms,
e.g. 2N/A * Use APR to get rid of more platform dependancies.
2N/A Status: Ryan Bloom <rbb@raleigh.ibm.com> is working on this.
2N/A * The connection status table is not very efficient. Also, very few stats
2N/A are exported to the connection status table (easy to fix), and mod_status
2N/AOther bugs that need fixing:
2N/A * MaxRequestsPerChild measures connections, not requests.
2N/A Until someone has a better way, we'll probably just rename it
2N/A "MaxConnectionsPerChild".
2N/A * Regex containers don't work in an intutive way
2N/A Status: No one has come up with an efficient way to fix this
2N/A behavior. Dean has suggested getting rid of regex containers
2N/A * SIGSEGV on Linux seems to only kill a thread, not a whole process;
2N/A we need to work around this, probably by bouncing the signal to
2N/A the sigwait thread. But this will hurt debugability.
2N/AOther features that need writing:
2N/A * Finish infrastructure in core for async MPMs
2N/A * TODO in source -- just do an egrep on "TODO" and see what's there
2N/A * Work on other MPMs. Possible MPMs discussed or in progress include:
2N/A - Dean Gaudet's async MPM
2N/A - Zach Brown's <zab@zabbo.net> Linux siginfo MPM
2N/ADocumentation that needs writing:
2N/A * The concept of MPMs, especially if we ship more than one MPM for a
2N/A * New directives in the various MPMs
2N/A Status: Ben Laurie has written some hooks documentation
2N/A * Changes since 1.3.9 can be more easily seen in the commitlog file
2N/A which includes some of Roy's comments when the changes were
2N/A committed in rough change-sets by purpose. Note that the commitlog
2N/A does not show the contents of new files until later.
2N/A * Mike Abbott's <mja@trudge.engr.sgi.com> patches to improve
2N/A Status: These were written for 1.3, and are awaiting a port to
2N/A * What do we do about mod_proxy?
2N/A * Which MPMs will be included with Apache 2.0?