[Pengfork-devel] Improvements

[Nicolas Burrus]

Hello, I think I'm inaugurating this mailing list :)

Since the projects seems to have a new start, I have some features 
suggestions (I have already done partially some of them in my hacked version 
of pengaol 1.0 beta) :

Clean up the code 
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1) Indentation is awful, maybe should use GNU coding style ?

2) Many things are in hard in the code, such as configuration files path,  
etc ... it should be set by the configure scripts.

3) C-style syntax for I/O, it is c++, so it should use std::cout, etc ... 
instead of C printf. Same things for list, stl lists are more adapted.

4) Command line options parsing : would be better and more standard with 
getopt.

5) Use autoconf & automake exclusively, I don't see the utility of the 
recompile script ! ./configure --prefix=/opt/pengaol-1.0 && make && make 
install should work and install binaries in /opt/pengaol-1.0/bin.

6) Comments should be in english everywhere.

7) Clean up logging messages, add syslog handling, etc ...

8) Clean the source tree, directories are not well chosen I think, peng/peng 
for the sources should be peng/src for example.

9) Make pengui a separated projects, maybe a subdirectory, I think most 
people want a light version of pengaol by default.

New features
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1) Make daemon mode beeing a real one, backgrounding the process, etc ...

2) Add --disconnect option which kill existing pengaol session

3) Check running version with a /var/run/pengaol.pid file or thinks like that.

Ok, I stop here for my first ideas, I wait for feedback :)

-- 
Nicolas Burrus