What's left before 2.0, and what's not in CVS.

[Arran Cudbard-Bell]

Alan DeKok wrote:
>   What's left before 2.0 is released?  There has been little feedback
> about the -pre releases (and -pre2 was unusable for some things I tried).
>
>   What's not in CVS, and what I will commit shortly:
>
> * removal of HUP support.  It doesn't work.
>
> * move almost all logic to time/fd-based event loop (like libevent, but
> simpler).  This means radiusd.c becomes tiny:
>    start..
>    while (do_events() == HUP) {
> 	// handle HUP
>    }
>
> * framework for HUP support is in place.  Maybe we can start adding HUP
> in 2.0.1, etc.
>
> * virtual servers for pools of home servers.
>   e.g. a pool can point to a virtual server, just like clients or
> listeners.  The pre-proxy and post-proxy methods for a request are run
> from that virtual server, rather than the ones in the "client" or
> "listener" sections.  This means that auth/acct packets can be handled
> by different pre/post proxy methods, which is nice.
>
> * rename of "server_pool" to "home_server_pool", as there are too many
> references to "server" everywhere.
>
> * New xlat's: %{client:...} %{home_server:...}, and %{home_server_pool:...}
>    The goal is to enable per-client/home server/whatever policies.  Put
> "foo=bar" into a client, and you can do:
>    if ("%{client:foo}" == "bar") {
> 	...
>    }
>   This enables policies to be per-client, without adding more
> configuration files to the server.
>
>
>   I think that's it.  The only thing I'd *like* to add is HUP support.
> But realistically, there isn't time.  And it's WAY past time to release 2.0.
>
>   Thoughts?
>   
We still need to get the memory leak issue sorted on Darwin. Sorry I 
haven't been able to provide more feedback.. I'll have another look at 
it today and see if it I can narrow I down.

Also need to decide on handling of reply attributes inserted pre-proxy.
>   Alan DeKok.
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