Re: [gentoo-dev] New USE_EXPAND flag for www-servers/monkeyd

["Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@gentoo.org>]

On 05/28/2013 11:35 AM, Michał Górny wrote:
> On Mon, 27 May 2013 16:38:09 -0400
> "Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
>> I was about to add a use expand flag for monkeyd (a tiny web server) and
>> there is a notice in base/make.default to discuss use expand flags on
>> the list first.  There are about 9 plugins for monkeyd similar to apache
>> which can be turned on/off by a configure switch. It makes sense to
>> follow the same logic as apache here.  There are no dependencies on
>> monkeyd and so no use-deps.  Seems very safe. Any objections?
> Could you elaborate a bit more on the flags? Please list them, shortly
> explain and tell us whether you expect the number of plugins to expand
> and how fast.
>

Sorry I already committed this with Chainsaw's ack.  Anyhow, they are:

auth - Provide HTTP Basic Authentication
cheetah - Provide a shell-like command line interface
#cgi - Provide the traditional CGI interface
dirlisting - Show an HTML listing of the content of a directory
#fastcgi - Provide FastCGI proxy support
liana - Build your own network layer through monkeyd
logger - Log requests and common errors
mandril - Restrict incoming connections based on the IP address or URI 
request
polarssl - Provide HTTPS using PolarSSL v1.*.

The ones that are commented out are global flags and so I did not make 
them part of the USE_EXPAND, they are still treated as plugins by 
monkeyd and I have them commented out in monkeyd_plugins.desc with an 
explanation.  Upstream has an entire plugin system which they use 
extensively and expect contributors to use plugins.  There have always 
been a couple of changes with each bump, eg between 1.1.1 and 1.2.0 
regarding ssl.  So I expect the same in the future.

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