Re: status of squid-1.2

oskar@is.co.za writes:

>> Last version that I could found is from August. It has some
>> very nice features. It has few things to fix, but other than
>I agree - I had a look at it on the weekend... nice work all
>the people who have done changes.

We are pretty close to releasing 1.2.beta1. I want to work out
just a few more assertion failures first....

>Duane - I am going to write the sections of the config file that
>are missing comments and put some general help at the
>top of the generated squid.conf.... I don't know if it's worth having
>a 'comment' section added to the 'cf_gen.c' file so that we can put
>in the headings like:
>
># OPTIONS WHICH AFFECT THE NEIGHBOR SELECTION ALGORITHM
>#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Good idea, please code it up...

>I will modify all the help/error files - it shouldn't take long.... and
>it's something that I can help with without coding :)

This has been mostly done. I'll wait till the beta release and
you can tell me if they are good enough....

>I had a slight problem compiling under linux due to it defaulting to
>the POLL option since linux doesnt seem to include poll.h, but
>rather <asm/poll.h> (and I am not sure that that includes all the
>needed #defines). I will put in the appropriate junk for that too.

Cool.

>> that it looks stable. Maybe it should be changed from alpha to
>> beta.. that way more people will use it, find more bugs,..
>If all the features that we were going to add are added already.. Duane?
>
>I see that we are using threads?

Only for Disk operations. This hasn't been sufficently tested yet
either....

Duane W.
Received on Tue Jul 29 2003 - 13:15:43 MDT