Increasing Polipo Portability for GSoC 2009

[Kyle Williams]

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.
>

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.



>
> 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.
>

Cool.


>
> 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.
>

That would be nice.  As I use it right now, it's quietly running in the
background.


>
> 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.
>

Looking forward to your results.


- Kyle
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