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APACHE 2.1+ ROADMAP:

Last modified at [$Date: 2001/12/26 17:54:38 $]

DEFERRRED FOR APACHE 2.1

    * Source code should follow style guidelines.
      OK, we all agree pretty code is good.  Probably best to clean this
      up by hand immediately upon branching a 2.1 tree.
      Status: Justin volunteers to hand-edit the entire source tree ;)

      Justin says:
        Recall when the release plan for 2.0 was written:
            Absolute Enforcement of an "Apache Style" for code.
        Watch this slip into 3.0.

      David says:
        The style guide needs to be reviewed before this can be done.
        http://dev.apache.org/styleguide.html
        The current file is dated April 20th 1998!
        Also the file should be moved to the correct location for
        future use.  Q: should APR have it's own copy as well?

    * revamp the input filter syntax to provide for ordering of
      filters created with the Set{Input|Output}Filter and the
      Add{Input|Output}Filter directives.  A 'relative to filterx' 
      syntax is definately preferable, but not realistic for 2.0.

    * Platforms that do not support fork (primarily Win32 and AS/400)
      Architect start-up code that avoids initializing all the modules 
      in the parent process on platforms that do not support fork.
      Better yet - not only inform the startup of which phase it's in,
      but allow the parent 'process' to initialize shared memory, etc,
      and create a module-by-module stream to pass to the child, so the
      parent can actually arbitrate the important stuff.

    * Replace stat [deferred open] with open/fstat in directory_walk.
      Justin, Ian, OtherBill all interested in this.  Implies setting up
      the apr_file_t member in request_rec, and having all modules use
      that file, and allow the cleanup to close it [if it isn't a shared,
      cached file handle.]

    * Refactor auth into auth protocols and auth database stores.
      Many interested hackers, too destabilizing for 2.0 inclusion.

DEFERRRED FOR APACHE 3.0

    * The Async Apache Server implemented in terms of APR.
      [Bill Stoddard's pet project.]
      Message-ID: <008301c17d42$9b446970$01000100@sashimi> (dev@apr)

    * Add a string "class" that combines a char* with a length
      and a reference count.  This will help reduce the number
      of strlen and strdup operations during request processing.