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1 | TODO list for agedu |
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4 | Before it's non-embarrassingly releasable: |
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6 | - cross-Unix portability: |
7 | + use autoconf |
8 | * configure use of stat64 |
9 | * configure use of /proc/net/tcp |
10 | * configure use of /dev/random |
11 | * configure use of Linux syscall magic replacing readdir |
12 | + later glibcs have fdopendir, hooray! So we can use that |
13 | too, if it's available and O_NOATIME is too. |
14 | * what do we do elsewhere about _GNU_SOURCE? |
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16 | - New mode: --remove, to destroy the data file. Handy for |
17 | totally self-contained usage: "-s . -w -R". |
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19 | - man page, --version. |
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21 | Future possibilities: |
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23 | - IPv6 support in the HTTP server |
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24 | * of course, Linux magic auth can still work in this context; we |
25 | merely have to be prepared to open one of /proc/net/tcp or |
26 | /proc/net/tcp6 as appropriate. |
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28 | - run-time configuration in the HTTP server |
29 | * I think this probably works by having a configuration form, or |
30 | a link pointing to one, somewhere on the report page. If you |
31 | want to reconfigure anything, you fill in and submit the form; |
32 | the web server receives HTTP GET with parameters and a |
33 | referer, adjusts its internal configuration, and returns an |
34 | HTTP redirect back to the referring page - which it then |
35 | re-renders in accordance with the change. |
36 | * All the same options should have their starting states |
37 | configurable on the command line too. |
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39 | - curses-ish equivalent of the web output |
40 | + try using xterm 256-colour mode. Can (n)curses handle that? If |
41 | not, try doing it manually. |
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42 | + I think my current best idea is to bypass ncurses and go |
43 | straight to terminfo: generate lines of attribute-interleaved |
44 | text and display them, so we only really need the sequences |
45 | "go here and display stuff", "scroll up", "scroll down". |
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46 | + Infrastructure work before doing any of this would be to split |
47 | html.c into two: one part to prepare an abstract data |
48 | structure describing an HTML-like report (in particular, all |
49 | the index lookups, percentage calculation, vector arithmetic |
50 | and line sorting), and another part to generate the literal |
51 | HTML. Then the former can be reused to produce very similar |
52 | reports in coloured plain text. |
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54 | - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms724290.aspx suggest |
55 | modern Windowses support atime-equivalents, so a Windows port is |
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56 | possible in principle. |
57 | + For a full Windows port, would need to modify the current |
58 | structure a lot, to abstract away (at least) memory-mapping of |
59 | files, details of disk scan procedure, networking for httpd. |
60 | Unclear what the right UI would be on Windows, too; |
61 | command-line exactly as now might be considered just a |
62 | _little_ unfriendly. Or perhaps not. |
63 | + Alternatively, a much easier approach would be to write a |
64 | Windows version of just the --scan-dump mode, which does a |
65 | filesystem scan via the Windows API and generates a valid |
66 | agedu dump file on standard output. Then one would simply feed |
67 | that over the network connection of one's choice to the rest |
68 | of agedu running on Unix as usual. |