Subject: Where the hell has Sara been?

Where the hell has Sara been?

From: Sara Golemon <pollita_at_libssh2.org>
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 22:56:05 -0800

Hi everyone. That was a busy week there. Y'all would just wait till
the ONE week I'm out of the country to start makin' noise, wouldn't ya?

:)

It's getting late here and I'm exhausted from the flight and two missed
connections (long story on the first one. Suffice to say, I saw parts
of Frankfurt most locals never see), so I'll keep this to short
summaries for the moment...

Bug#1588093 / libssh2_poll_channel_read()
* Havn't looked into it, but I've got the message flagged for the
comming week.

Crash during key exchange
* Agreed, why have failure codes if they don't get used. The proposed
patches look good to me.

All your mem are belong to us
* I've actually got defines in there for packet sizes, but for some
reason they're only being used in relation to compression. Someone will
need to add that in...
* I agree that LIBSSH2_ALLOC() should have a sanity check for
allocations. I can't think of a spot where more than 64k is ever used,
though might make this 256kb just to be tolerant.

Sourcecode Formatting
* Yes, those usually are religious issues.
* I don't see anything wrong with placing hard-wraps at 80 chars and it
probably would add much to readability in most cases. Let's make it a
soft rule though, there are times when a couple extra over is better
than a forced split.
* The only rules I'm really particular about are:
   * Tab-indents, not spaces.
   * Bracing, even for one-line if conditions
   * Commenting commenting commenting :)
* Yes, I know I've broken all three of these rules at least once :)

Moving private include files
* Is there any particular reason this is desired? I'm not inherently
against it, but I don't see an impetus for it.
* For the record, SF project admins don't have direct access to CVS so I
couldn't do this if I wanted to. Well, okay I could, but only because
Sourceforge NetOps is across the street and I've known the guys who run
it since forever :)

OpenSSL and pkg-config
* Looks okay to me. I'm no expert on pkg-config and will defer to y'all
on that one.

32bit variables:
* Yeah, I know treating long as 32bit is an abuse, but I think I've
taken reasonable steps to ensure that overflows aren't problematic.
* In theory someone might try building on a 16bit device (some embedded
app), and this is reason enough to properly detect a true 32bit type,
but I won't lose much sleep over it.

64bit variables:
* In the win32 case, that typedef is reliable, don't recall the darwin
case... Did someone else put that in?
* The win32 build system is something someone else threw in as I have
neither the experience or the motivation to focus on DLL builds. If
someone wants to make this area shine, you'd be a godsend.

libtool/automake:
* Sure, go for it. In the beginning a hand-crafted Makefile.in was
simpler to get things going, but there are a few source files and the
file is getting a bit unruly. Using a proper automake setup should
reduce some of those problems.

CVS Acccess:
* Who wants it? Send me your sourceforge userid. If something you
commit goes horribly wrong, it can always be reverted. That's the
beauty of version control.

-Sara
Received on 2006-11-12