Increasing Polipo Portability for GSoC 2009

[Wesley Kenzie]

Hi, Christopher. If you could also solve the known instability issues with
polipo that Juliusz has not had time to resolve in the past year, then many
would be grateful.  I cannot get polipo to run for more than about an hour
without it crashing.
. . . . .
Wesley


On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 12:10 AM, Christopher Davis <chrisd at mangrin.org>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'll be working to increase Polipo's portability for GSoC 2009,
> which starts a bit later this month. I'm happy to have Nick Mathewson
> of the Tor project as my mentor, and I'll also be working with
> Juliusz Chroboczek, author of Polipo, to hopefully get some of the
> changes committed.
>
> The main idea of the project centers on libevent integration. A number
> of other prominent projects use the library, including Tor, and so there
> are more avenues for bug fixes. To start with, integration will be basic,
> but it will be enough to take advantage of platform-specific interfaces
> for polling large numbers of file descriptors, as well as libevent's
> portable asynchronous DNS resolver.
>
> Another part of the project is to add a simple controller application
> (which will typically be run in the system tray). This is mainly to
> enable Windows users to signal Polipo at run-time.
>
> There are some smaller bits I'd like to tackle, as well, including
> adding a Windows installer and autotools support for automatically
> finding dependencies.
>
> I'm looking forward to the summer.
>
> Thanks,
> --
> Christopher Davis
> Mangrin Remailer Admin
> PGP: 0x0F8DA163
>
>
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