Re: so what is involved in calling squid-3.0 'stable'?

On 23/04/2006 1:11 a.m., Robert Collins wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-04-23 at 00:58 +1200, Reuben Farrelly wrote:
>> On 23/04/2006 12:41 a.m., Robert Collins wrote:
>>> Asking adrian on irc - '
>>> 22:34 < adrian__> Enough people using it as a traditional forward cache
>>> 22:34 < adrian__> and saying there aren't any strange problems
>>> 22:34 < adrian__> Because its got a bad name
>>> '
>>>
>>> So, what is required. How can we engage the community in making squid-3
>>> stable ? There seems to be non-trivial interest in making it happen, but
>>> whats the actual benchmark ?
>> I'll start using it again and pushing forward with bug reports if there's
>> someone there to work on them...last time I tried squid-3 I was seeing some odd
>> stuff with client side connections being closed randomly and requiring frequent
>> refreshing with my end browser, but at the time I didn't gather anything useful.
>
> There are definately people doing things around the source - I think
> harnessing the energy is the issue. I only have a small amount of time,
> and I'll probably be using it on toolchain support to make it easier for
> others to fix bugs - because thats something effective I can do in the
> timeframes I have available.

That's cool.

Changing the subject a little, there have been many new people introduce
themselves on this list maybe with good intentions of working on squid, who seem
to vanish as fast as they arrive. I wonder if they've simply (a) never intended
to contribute in the first place, (b) done some work privately but never
released it or (c) taken a good look at the code, and run away fast deciding it
was all too hard ;-)

 From a development perspective, I think it'd be of value to know why are there
not more people developing squid. It seems to be just a "hardcore" few.........

> I've added some missing files - I could swear I had added them. Is that
> better?

Yes, gets much further now, but runs into grief again here:

g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DDEFAULT_CONFIG_FILE=\"/etc/squid/squid.conf\" -I. -I.
-I../include -I. -I. -I../include -I../include -I../lib/libTrie/include
-I../lib/cppunit-1.10.0/include -I ../lib/cppunit-1.10.0/include
-I/usr/kerberos/include -Werror -Wall -Wpointer-arith -Wwrite-strings
-Wcomments -D_REENTRANT -g -O2 -c -o http.o http.cc
http.cc:50:23: error: HttpHdrSc.h: No such file or directory
http.cc:51:29: error: HttpHdrScTarget.h: No such file or directory
make[3]: *** [http.o] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/squid/squid-3.0/src'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/squid/squid-3.0/src'
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/squid/squid-3.0/src'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
[root@tornado squid-3.0]#

I guess a few more missing files.

Reuben
Received on Sat Apr 22 2006 - 08:14:23 MDT