some progress...

Sorry its been so long since the last updates, but I made some progress
tonight:
* went through the mailing list archive to add any bugs that weren't in the
SourceForge bug tracking system yet
* there is a fix for various pattern matching bugs in CVS right now,
including requests like /foo/bar/index.html getting incorrectly matched to
/bar/* (I am holding off on closing the bug, though, as this stuff might
change...)
* I wrote a test setup to check the matching functionality that will also be
useful for trying alternate regular expression packages, as we might make a
switch to Jakarta-ORO to solve the sychronization problem. I am going to do
some performance comparisons and verify the matching functionality to choose
an approach. I looked at the ORO project and through it doesn't quite work
the same way as Regexp, it does look like it would be faster considering our
multi-threaded environment (precompiled thread-safe patterns, with a Matcher
for each request thread). The test setup is not in CVS, but I might add it
as a separate project once it stabilizes.

I plan to fix the highest priority stuff (patterns & synchronization) and do
a release in two weeks or less.

-Max




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