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author | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2014-06-19 15:11:28 +0200 |
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committer | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2014-06-19 15:11:28 +0200 |
commit | 49078ae363311e1e76a26ef30ad52789f2eb77fc (patch) | |
tree | 2178c543d8fbf2b78e05ac447781037790114b74 | |
parent | 42d199b1f183ab5849378a96a8b953d85dc44eb9 (diff) |
ROADMAP: removed, now ROADMAP.md
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diff --git a/docs/ROADMAP b/docs/ROADMAP deleted file mode 100644 index 3c565e79c..000000000 --- a/docs/ROADMAP +++ /dev/null @@ -1,88 +0,0 @@ -curl the next few years - perhaps -======================= - -Roadmap of things Daniel Stenberg and Steve Holme want to work on next. It is -intended to serve as a guideline for others for information, feedback and -possible participation. - -New stuff - libcurl -=================== - -1. http2 test suite - -2. http2 multiplexing/pipelining - -3. SPDY - -4. SRV records - -5. HTTPS to proxy - -6. make sure there's an easy handle passed in to curl_formadd(), - curl_formget() and curl_formfree() by adding replacement functions and - deprecating the old ones to allow custom mallocs and more - -7. HTTP Digest authentication via Windows SSPI - -8. GSSAPI authentication in the email protocols - -9. add support for third-party SASL libraries such as Cyrus SASL - may need to - move existing native and SSPI based authentication into vsasl folder after - reworking HTTP and SASL code - -10. SASL authentication in LDAP - -11. Simplify the SMTP email interface so that programmers don't have to - construct the body of an email that contains all the headers, alternative - content, images and attachments - maintain raw interface so that - programmers that want to do this can - -12. Allow the email protocols to return the capabilities before - authenticating. This will allow an application to decide on the best - authentication mechanism - -13. Allow Windows threading model to be replaced by Win32 pthreads port - -14. Implement a dynamic buffer size to allow SFTP to use much larger buffers - and possibly allow the size to be customizable by applications. Use less - memory when handles are not in use? - -New stuff - curl -================ - -1. Embed a language interpreter (lua?). For that middle ground where curl - isn’t enough and a libcurl binding feels “too much”. Build-time conditional - of course. - -2. Simplify the SMTP command line so that the headers and multi-part content - don't have to be constructed before calling curl - -Improve -======= - -1. build for windows (considered hard by many users) - -2. curl -h output (considered overwhelming to users) - -3. we have > 160 command line options, is there a way to redo things to - simplify or improve the situation as we are likely to keep adding - features/options in the future too - -4. docs (considered "bad" by users but how do we make it better?) - A - split up curl_easy_setopt.3 - B - split up curl.1 - -5. authentication framework (consider merging HTTP and SASL authentication to - give one API for protocols to call) - -6. Perform some of the clean up from the TODO document, removing old - definitions and such like that are currently earmarked to be removed years - ago - -Remove -====== - -1. cmake support (nobody maintains it) - -2. makefile.vc files as there is no point in maintaining two sets of Windows - makefiles. Note: These are currently being used by the Windows autobuilds |