Re: What is Polipo's future?

Donovan Baarda (2012-02-16 15:31):
<...> 
> I think right now polipo is very close to filling the proxy part of
> this, but it is missing a few important things. It is nice and small,
> uses an efficient/scalable async design, and seems to have the most
> advanced http 1.1 support of anything out there. The bits it is
> missing are;
> 
> 1) Reliability. I'm running the Debian package version 1.0.4.1-1.1 and
> it cannot stay up more than about 5mins in use before it segfaults.
> Bugs like http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=655851
> effectively render it useless for real use, and this is not the only
> thing that kills it, as it seems to die randomly for all sorts of
> requests. It may be that these kinds of problems have been fixed in
> the git head, in which case it needs a new release and/or some Debian
> maintainer love.
> <...>

Just a note from a small-time user: git head is and has been stable for
some years now. Regarding "maintainer love", see
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=28829908


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