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

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

On 05/28/2013 03:07 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
> On Tue, 28 May 2013 14:57:03 -0400
> "Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
>> 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.*.
> Shouldn't this one be tied to USE=ssl?
>
> For the others, how large is the benefit of having them switchable?
> At least some of them look like something that wouldn't hurt people if
> it was always-built.
>
I thought about ssl but I'm still not sure if USE=ssl means just openssl 
or any ssl.  Eg, with curl, which has a choice of one of six backend ssl 
providers, I changed USE=ssl to mean that one and only one of the six 
must be on.  Previously though, USE=ssl in curl meant only openssl which 
was confusing because you could also have USE=nss or gnutls etc provide 
your ssl.  monkey also bounced around its ssl backend from liana_ssl to 
polarssl which is what made me think of curl.  What if in the future 
there's yet another ssl backend? Although use.desc does say ... "ssl - 
Adds support for Secure Socket Layer connections".  Any advice here?

monkeyd is intended for embedded systems which is why it has switchable 
plugins.  You can even choose whether or not to install the shared lib 
and include files to really slim it down.

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