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diff --git a/docs/ROADMAP b/docs/ROADMAP new file mode 100644 index 000000000..3c565e79c --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/ROADMAP @@ -0,0 +1,88 @@ +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 |