apreq_status(3)

NAME

apreq_status - STATUS 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:

· We are moving from cvs to subversion as soon as it is

convenient. Vote was taken in March 2004
(http://marc.theaims

group.com/?t=107919363000001&r=1&w=2)
and the results were as follows:

+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:

· apreq_merge_values()

· 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:

1. 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.

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