Re: Status of Squid 3 on Windows

Hi Alex,

Il 02.13 04/05/2009 Alex Rousskov ha scritto:
>Hi Guido,
>
> Thanks a lot for the update. It is sad to see the results of many
>years of work dissipating and I sympathize with your situation. I wonder
>whether the demand for Squid on Windows is just not there OR it is the
>current lack of Windows support that makes it difficult for Acme to
>quickly monetize the potential demand. I know very little about folks
>running Windows servers so it is difficult for me to judge what they are
>using and what they want to use.

Squid on Windows suffers two big issues: the only available comm loop
is select() and the maximum FDs number is hard coded to 2048 in the
MSVCRT library.
This limits the scalability and restrict its usage to low end
implementation, and go over this is really not so simple, because
very big changes in the comm code are needed.

My feel is that Squid on Windows is mainly used on very low cost
implementation, and only a few of user could be interested on very
limited investment.

I have compiled an experimental binary build of Squid 3.0 STABLE 13
asking on squid-users to test it and give some feedback to the list.
After two months, the feedback number was NONE, really I cannot
understand this ...

>Can you say what it would take for you and Acme to resurrect Windows
>support for Squid3? It might be easier for others to pitch in with time,
>money, and/or hardware if the requirements are known. We can post your
>estimates to both mailing lists and see what happens.

Mainly is not a money/hardware problem, its a time/resource problem.
I cannot leave my current activity out but I could try to fix the
build environment and after manage the work of some other developer,
but the availability of other human resource in the Windows project
is essential.

Regards

Guido

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Received on Mon May 04 2009 - 20:57:10 MDT