Re: [Unreal-users] Planned features for 3.3?

[Bram M. (Syzop) <sy...@vu...>]

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tabris wrote:
> 	What is the planned feature list for 3.3? The FAQ doesn't list it, and 
> there's nothing in google either.

Yeah, I've though about publishing it, but.. I also don't want to put all kinds
of ideas online that others can "grab" before we actually implemented it ;).
Another reason is I (we?) don't want to expect everyone to have feature X
implemented that is on the list. Some things might not be done.

In any case, among them are:
- - Completely different I/O engine, one that deals with kqueue/epoll/etc. While
tests show that the performance advantage isn't as big as one would expect, it
will be cleaner code (which means less bugs, easier to extend, etc.).
- - Besides the above, several other subsystems will be completely replaced and/or
rewritten. Others will be highly improved (speed). Basically in all cases it
would result in cleaner code, and lower cpu usage.
- - Much more will be modulized. This is especially for "hot swap" ("hotfix")
purposes (patch the ircd for a vulnerability or normal bug, without requiring a
restart).
- - Numerous new features (web interface, distributed spamfilter,
internationalization of numerics/messages, and more)
- - Some of these things might be discussed on the forums to gather opinions (such
as more customized oper levels, etc.)

The main goals (in this order) for 3.3* are:
- - Cleaner code
- - Speedup
- - New features

So yes, new features isn't #1. Still, there will be many (major) new features of
course ;). It's just that we will concentrate much more than usual on cleaning
up the code and optimizing things, which is a good idea IMHO.

> With 18 months to do the development, anything is possible, right?

One would say so.
Still, it depends on how many "anythings" there must be done.. ;).

	Syzop.

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