<div><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 12:10 AM, Christopher Davis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chrisd@mangrin.org">chrisd@mangrin.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Hello,<br>
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I'll be working to increase Polipo's portability for GSoC 2009,<br>
which starts a bit later this month. I'm happy to have Nick Mathewson<br>
of the Tor project as my mentor, and I'll also be working with<br>
Juliusz Chroboczek, author of Polipo, to hopefully get some of the<br>
changes committed.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I thought Polipo was already portable. I've been using it with D.A.D. on a USB drive for over a year, and haven't had any problems.</div><div><br></div><div>
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The main idea of the project centers on libevent integration. A number<br>
of other prominent projects use the library, including Tor, and so there<br>
are more avenues for bug fixes. To start with, integration will be basic,<br>
but it will be enough to take advantage of platform-specific interfaces<br>
for polling large numbers of file descriptors, as well as libevent's<br>
portable asynchronous DNS resolver.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Cool.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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Another part of the project is to add a simple controller application<br>
(which will typically be run in the system tray). This is mainly to<br>
enable Windows users to signal Polipo at run-time.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That would be nice. As I use it right now, it's quietly running in the background.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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There are some smaller bits I'd like to tackle, as well, including<br>
adding a Windows installer and autotools support for automatically<br>
finding dependencies.<br>
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I'm looking forward to the summer.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Looking forward to your results.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>- Kyle</div><div></div></div></div>