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   1 TODO list for agedu
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   4 Future possibilities:
   5
   6  - integrate more usefully with the output of configure. It's
   7    generating oodles of automatic boilerplate in config.h and I'm
   8    sure three quarters of it _ought_ to be usable to add
   9    portability, if only I had the gumption to actually pay attention
  10    to all those HAVE_FOO macros it's defined for me.
  11
  12  - IPv6 support in the HTTP server
  13     * of course, Linux magic auth can still work in this context; we
  14       merely have to be prepared to open one of /proc/net/tcp or
  15       /proc/net/tcp6 as appropriate.
  16
  17  - run-time configuration in the HTTP server
  18     * I think this probably works by having a configuration form, or
  19       a link pointing to one, somewhere on the report page. If you
  20       want to reconfigure anything, you fill in and submit the form;
  21       the web server receives HTTP GET with parameters and a
  22       referer, adjusts its internal configuration, and returns an
  23       HTTP redirect back to the referring page - which it then
  24       re-renders in accordance with the change.
  25     * All the same options should have their starting states
  26       configurable on the command line too.
  27
  28  - curses-ish equivalent of the web output
  29     + try using xterm 256-colour mode. Can (n)curses handle that? If
  30       not, try doing it manually.
  31     + I think my current best idea is to bypass ncurses and go
  32       straight to terminfo: generate lines of attribute-interleaved
  33       text and display them, so we only really need the sequences
  34       "go here and display stuff", "scroll up", "scroll down".
  35     + Infrastructure work before doing any of this would be to split
  36       html.c into two: one part to prepare an abstract data
  37       structure describing an HTML-like report (in particular, all
  38       the index lookups, percentage calculation, vector arithmetic
  39       and line sorting), and another part to generate the literal
  40       HTML. Then the former can be reused to produce very similar
  41       reports in coloured plain text.
  42
  43  - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms724290.aspx suggest
  44    modern Windowses support atime-equivalents, so a Windows port is
  45    possible in principle.
  46     + For a full Windows port, would need to modify the current
  47       structure a lot, to abstract away (at least) memory-mapping of
  48       files, details of disk scan procedure, networking for httpd.
  49       Unclear what the right UI would be on Windows, too;
  50       command-line exactly as now might be considered just a
  51       _little_ unfriendly. Or perhaps not.
  52     + Alternatively, a much easier approach would be to write a
  53       Windows version of just the --scan-dump mode, which does a
  54       filesystem scan via the Windows API and generates a valid
  55       agedu dump file on standard output. Then one would simply feed
  56       that over the network connection of one's choice to the rest
  57       of agedu running on Unix as usual.