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   1 TODO list for agedu
   2 ===================
   3
   4 Before it's non-embarrassingly releasable:
   5
   6  - render HTTP access control more sane.
   7     * we should have the configurable option to use HTTP Basic
   8       authentication or Linux magic /proc/net/tcp
   9     * a third option, and the default one, should be to _try_ to use
  10       magic auth, and fall back to HTTP Basic if unavailable
  11
  12  - sort out the command line syntax
  13     * I think there should be a unified --mode / -M for every
  14       running mode, possibly without the one-letter option for the
  15       diagnostic sorts of things
  16     * there should be some configurable options:
  17        + range limits on the age display
  18        + server address in httpd mode
  19
  20  - do some configurability for the disk scan
  21     * wildcard-based includes and excludes
  22        + wildcards can act on the last pathname component or the
  23          whole lot
  24        + include and exclude can be interleaved; implicit "include
  25          *" before any
  26     * reinstate filesystem crossing, though not doing so should
  27       remain the default
  28
  29  - polish up disk-scan progress reporting
  30     * by default it should be conditional on isatty(2)
  31     * manual override to enable or disable
  32     * we should find rather than guessing the terminal width
  33
  34  - work out what to do about atimes on directories
  35     * one option is to read them during the scan and reinstate them
  36       after each recursion pop. Race-condition prone.
  37     * marking them in a distinctive colour in the reports is the
  38       other option.
  39
  40  - make a final decision on the name!
  41
  42 Future directions:
  43
  44  - run-time configuration in the HTTP server
  45     * I think this probably works by having a configuration form, or
  46       a link pointing to one, somewhere on the report page. If you
  47       want to reconfigure anything, you fill in and submit the form;
  48       the web server receives HTTP GET with parameters and a
  49       referer, adjusts its internal configuration, and returns an
  50       HTTP redirect back to the referring page - which it then
  51       re-renders in accordance with the change.
  52     * All the same options should have their starting states
  53       configurable on the command line too.
  54
  55  - polish the plain-text output:
  56     + do the same formatting as in HTML, by showing files as a
  57       single unit and also sorting by size? (Probably the other way
  58       up, due to scrolling.)
  59     + configurable recursive output depth
  60
  61  - curses-ish equivalent of the web output
  62     + try using xterm 256-colour mode. Can (n)curses handle that? If
  63       not, try doing it manually.
  64
  65  - cross-module:
  66     + figure out what to do about scans starting in the root
  67       directory!
  68        * Currently we end up with a double leading slash on the
  69          pathnames, which is ugly, and we also get a zero-length
  70          href in between those slashes which means the web interface
  71          doesn't let you click back up to the top level at all.
  72        * One big problem here is that a lot of the code assumes that
  73          you can find the extent of a pathname by searching for
  74          "foo" and "foo^A", trusting that anything inside the
  75          directory will begin "foo/". So I'd need to consistently
  76          fix this everywhere so that a trailing slash is disregarded
  77          while doing it, but not actually removed.
  78        * The text output gets it all wrong.
  79        * The HTML output is fiddly even at the design stage: where
  80          would I _ideally_ put the link to click on to get back to
  81          /? It's unclear!
  82
  83  - more flexible running modes
  84     + decouple the disk scan from the index building code, so that
  85       the former can optionally output in the same format as --dump
  86       and the latter can optionally work from input on stdin (having
  87       also fixed the --dump format in the process so it's perfectly
  88       general). Then we could scan on one machine and transfer the
  89       results over the net to another machine where they'd be
  90       indexed; in particular, this way the indexing machine could be
  91       64-bit even if the machine owning the filesystems was only 32.
  92     + ability to build a database _and_ immediately run one of the
  93       ongoing interactive report modes (httpd, curses) would seem
  94       handy.
  95
  96  - portability
  97     + between Unices:
  98        * autoconf?
  99        * configure use of stat64
 100        * configure use of /proc/net/tcp
 101        * what do we do elsewhere about _GNU_SOURCE?
 102     + further afield: is there in fact any non-Unix OS that supports
 103       atimes and hence can be used with agedu at all?
 104        * yes! http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms724290.aspx