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   1 TODO list for agedu
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   3
   4 Before it's non-embarrassingly releasable:
   5
   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?
  15
  16  - New mode: --remove, to destroy the data file. Handy for
  17    totally self-contained usage: "-s . -w -R".
  18
  19  - man page, --version.
  20
  21 Future possibilities:
  22
  23  - IPv6 support in the HTTP server
  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.
  27
  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.
  38
  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.
  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".
  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.
  53
  54  - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms724290.aspx suggest
  55    modern Windowses support atime-equivalents, so a Windows port is
  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.