Re: first commit! HACKING

() Raimund 'Raimi' Jacob <[email protected]>
() Mon, 31 Jan 2011 21:45:43 +0100

   Just go ahead.
   [...]
   That will be fine.
   [...]
   Since you are the only developer by now, you have the freedom of
   choice. Just go ahead. If you provided some emacs customization code
   that selects the right kind of indentation/tabbing/formatting - that
   would be terrific. (something like "put this into you
   .[x]emacs/custom.el" or something)

Cool.  I will add something to HACKING.

   By the way: Greetings from Stefan and Martin. Both are happy that
   there is a new developer. Both are happy for the GPLv3+ change. Both
   don't have time to contribute something substantial :)

Serveez had a great birth -- it deserves to continue growing.  Of
course, when it gets to adolescence, i'll probably need to call in
uncles Stefan, Martin and Raimi to give it a stern lecture to counter
the intervening years at the hands of ttn...

   Go Go Go :)

OK, i'll start moving at full (or faster) speed, and more freely on
non-technical matters.  Will bother you only for technical questions.

   I have a question: You intend to remove autogenerated files from git
   repo.  We had them in CVS so that people wouldn't need all those
   autotools-stuff installed just to build a nightly CVS tarball. I
   don't know if you are referring to other autogenerated files.

Here is the list of files on the chopping block:
- INSTALL
- config.h.serveez
- src/svzconfig.h.serveez
- doc/mdate-sh
They are all autotools stuff, i believe.  I don't think there is much
demand for "buildable out of repo" these days.  Besides, the current
repo does not include the configure script and so people would need at
least autoconf anyway.  Might as well give the savannah hard disks a
small break.

   Also, I'm completely out of C coding -
   so I might be missing everything :)

No worries.  I will only bother you w/ technical questions related to
Serveez design and not implementation.

   Furthermore: I would very much like to see IPv6 support a little up
   in the TODO list. This is something serveez needs and should provide.
   But again, I'm dead weight when it comes to providing code :)

Right.  You will see it bumped up (in "other stuff to do", for now).

   And finally: Eliminating the resolving coserver would be sooo
   good. Back in the day there was "libadns" or something as the only
   option for non-blocking name resolution. Don't know about nowadays.

Could you explain why it would be good to eliminate that, or point to
some discussion about its (mis-)design?  I have much to learn in this
area.