GNU Serveez 0.2.0 available

[Thien-Thi Nguyen]

release notes:

  After several years of inactivity, GNU Serveez is back!

  thi

README excerpt:

  GNU Serveez is a server framework.  It provides routines and help
  for implementing IP-based servers (currently TCP, UDP and ICMP).
  It supports named pipes for all connection-oriented protocols.

  We think it is worth the effort because many people need server
  functionality within their applications.  However, many people
  experience problems with select(2) or poll(2) loops, and with
  non-blocking operations.

  GNU Serveez demonstrates various aspects of advanced network
  programming in a portable manner.  It is known to compile and
  run on GNU/Linux systems, as well as on other 32-bit and 64-bit
  flavours of Unix and on Microsoft Windows (9x/ME/NT/2000/XP).

  You can use it for implementing your own servers or for
  understanding how certain network services and operations work.

NEWS excerpt:

  - 0.2.0 | 2013-01-22

    - license upgrade

        The GNU Serveez software is now released under GPLv3+.
        Its documentation is released under GFDL 1.3.

    - distribution now .tar.xz

        If you have GNU tar, you can use "tar xf" and it will DTRT.
        If not, you can use "xz -dc TARBALL | tar xf -" to unpack.

    - C99 compiler required; configure fails if not found

        In particular, libserveez.h does ‘#include <stdint.h>’.

    - bugfixes

      - ensure "make uninstall" removes all Serveez-related dirs

        It used to leave behind /usr/local/lib/libserveez et al, for
        example.  If you want to uninstall a previous installation of
        Serveez, try doing:

        $ ./configure --enable-libserveez-install --prefix PREFIX
        $ make all install uninstall

        taking care to specify the same PREFIX as before.

      - sloppy ‘sscanf’ (latent remote buffer overflow)

      - SIGINT causes segfault (savannah support #107607)

      - typo in ‘svz_portcfg_equal’ for protocol ‘pipe’

      - scope error in DNS return

      - detect ‘gettimeofday’ with #include <sys/time.h>

      - don't drop subsequent "TCP final write" on previous write flush

      - ensure current module for initialization is ‘(guile)’

      - avoid double-free in HTTP server

    - "native MSVC" port dropped

        You can still (try to) build under cygwin or mingwin, however.
        (Serveez maintainers don't personally subject themselves to
        woe32, so code specific to these platforms is untested.)

    - support dropped for doc integration w/ Guile help system

        If there is demand, this may return later after things stabilize
        a bit.  If there is no demand, that's fine too.

    - manuals combined

        The embedding manual is now embedded in the main manual.  To
        distinguish between Scheme and C, we say "Scheme Procedure" and
        "Function", respectively.

    - new command-line option: ‘--solitary’ (short form: ‘-s’)

        Normally, serveez(1) starts some builtin coserver instances.
        This flag inhibits that.  See related libserveez NEWS item
        below.

    - libserveez API changes

      - big pruning

        A great many API elements have been internalized or outright
        eliminated in an effort to gain implementation slack.  Among
        those that might be missed are functions to create/manipulate
        the "vector" and "sparse vector" data structures, and some
        functions to manipulate the "hash" and "array" data structures.

        Similarly, allocation functions for "permanent, untracked
        memory space" are now no longer provided; for such allocation,
        you should use the system ‘malloc’, ‘realloc’, ‘strdup’, ‘free’
        directly.

      - namespace hygiene: "svz_" or "SVZ_" prefix everywhere

        If you detect an API element whose name does not begin with
        "svz_" or "SVZ_", that's a bug; please report it.

      - standard types

        There is more use of ‘size_t’, ‘mode_t’, ‘uid_t’, ‘gid_t’,
        ‘in_addr_t’, ‘in_port_t’, uint{8,16,32}_t, etc.  Signal handlers
        are assumed to return ‘void’.

      - more ‘const’

        Some pointer parameters now are declared ‘const’.  The API is
        not yet fully vetted; there will probably be more in the future.

      - monolithic libserveez.h

        Previously libserveez.h simply ‘#include’d other files from
        $(includedir)/libserveez/.  Now libserveez.h is generated from
        those files at build time and is the only header installed
        (should you choose, see ‘--enable-libserveez-install’ below).

      - internals marked with GCC "hidden visibility attribute"

        Non-static internal elements (shared between compilation units)
        are now marked with a "hidden visibility attribute" if you use
        GCC.

        If you don't use GCC, you can tell if an element is internal if
        it is undocumented (i.e., all publicly exported API elements are
        documented -- in theory).

        In case you didn't know, using internal elements is Not Cool.
        Sometimes you may be tempted; contact Serveez hackers for help.

      - new type: svz_address_t

        Many functions that used to take, and structures that used to
        hold, an ‘unsigned long’ value to specify an IPv4 address now
        use instead a (pointer to) ‘svz_address_t’, which encapsulates
        the family and bits of an IPv4 or IPv6 address.  There are new
        functions to create/manipulate objects of this type.

        Because we're lame, libserveez does not yet actually support
        IPv6 internally (or maybe it does but we're too lame to know),
        so for the time being, the family must always be specified as
        ‘AF_INET’ otherwise the process ‘abort’s.  You have been warned!

      - new collection/type-specific iteration funcs

        There are new funcs svz_foreach_COLLECTION to iterate through a
        COLLECTION (one of: servertype, server, codec, socket, interface,
        coserver), applying a callback (of type svz_COLLECTION_do_t) to
        the object.  The callback also receives the opaque closure passed
        to the iteration func.

      - new "pp" funcs replace (some) "printf" funcs

        These take a buffer and its size and pretty-print some object
        into it.  Unlike the "printf" functions, they do not allocate
        memory, themselves.  This is part of an ongoing effort to make
        libserveez re-entrant.

      - new func: svz_library_features

        This is exposed to Scheme as ‘libserveez-features’.

      - new func: svz_hash_configure

        Previously, to override the default ‘keylen’, ‘code’ and ‘equal’
        functions for a hash table, you would assign them directly to
        the appropriate members of the hash-table structure.  Since that
        struct is now internalized, this function serves the same
        purpose.

      - possible to "init" coservers w/o starting instances

        You can now initialize the Serveez coserver internals w/o
        starting any instances by passing a negative arg (say, -1) to
        func ‘svz_updn_all_coservers’ (which is a combination of two
        previously separate funcs, now "internalized").

      - libtool-style versioning

        Previous releases built and installed the shared object library
        in a manner that ensured each such library was incompatible with
        those from any other release.  Now, we maintain a Libtool-style
        version triple to better indicate and track (in)compatability.
        Please see (info "(libtool) Versioning") for details.

        The triple, now "1:0:0", will be mentioned in NEWS henceforth.

        You might want to avoid all this complication entirely; see new
        configure option ‘--enable-libserveez-install’ below.

    - scheme changes

      - provide some funcs only if Guile doesn't

        Newer versions of Guile provide: ‘htons’, ‘ntohs’, ‘htonl’,
        ‘ntohl’, ‘inet-aton’ and ‘inet-ntoa’.  If configuration detects
        this, those procedures will not be built.  Furthermore, if they
        are built, their names now lack the "svz:" prefix.  Those names
        are no longer documented.

      - convenience scheme promoted to built-in

        Several procedures that used to require:
          (primitive-load "serveez.scm")
        are now built-in.

    - AWCS protocol / server dropped

        This code is no longer useful.  See:
        http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/dev-serveez/2011-06/msg00001.html

    - configuration changes

      - dropped options: --enable-{warn,opt,ppro,486}, --with-opt

        These are better expressed via env var ‘CFLAGS’; see manual.

      - dropped option: --enable-thread-safety

        The condition where "thread safety" is required is now detected
        automatically by the configure script.

      - dropped options: --with-guile, --with-guile-source

        Configuration now relies solely on the ‘guile-config’ program,
        included in a proper Guile installation.  See also README-cross.

      - dropped option: --enable-awcs-proto

      - new option: --enable-libserveez-install

        As of this alpha release, and for all releases prior to 0.8.0
        (i.e., the first beta), "make install" by default does NOT
        install libserveez and its header.  To do so, specify option
        ‘--enable-libserveez-install’ to the configure script.  You need
        to install libserveez and its header only if you want to link
        your own program with it, of course.

    - more coverage for "make check"

        Previously, "make check" only tested the data structures.  Now
        there are, in addition, tests for the passthrough server, the
        SNTP server, the Guile server (running a simple echo service),
        the HTTP CGI server, the binary objects support, and handling of
        some misconfiguration scenarios.  If a particular server is
        disabled, that test is skipped.

    - improved portability to more recent Guile versions

        This release was tested w/ Guile 1.8.7 and 2.0.6, the latter
        under ‘GUILE_AUTO_COMPILE=0’.  Testing, bug reports, and bug
        fixes w/ other Guile versions/configurations very welcome!

    - prettier PDF output

        In PDF output, C functions are displayed w/ a line break after
        the return type, leaving only indentation before the name.  This
        is achieved by address@hidden txideftypefnnl’ in the serveez.texi 
header.

    - bootstrap tool versions
      - GNU Autoconf 2.69
      - GNU Libtool 2.4.2
      - GNU Automake 1.13.1
      - GNU Texinfo 4.13.94
      - Guile-BAUX 20121120.1242.e233fad

tarball and detached signature:

  http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/serveez/serveez-0.2.0.tar.xz
  http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/serveez/serveez-0.2.0.tar.xz.sig

source code:

  http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/serveez.git

homepage:

  http://www.gnu.org/software/serveez/

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