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Hi!

On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 16:38:32 +0100, Gábor Melis mega@retes.hu wrote:

I've been migrating some of my stuff over to hunchentoot from paserve and I'm generally happy with it.

Good... :)

One thing that strikes me as odd is the number of specials that govern server behaviour. I'm not talking about *request* and *reply* since they are dynamic extent by nature, but *log-...*, *default-...*, and well ... almost everything else. It seems to me that they make it very hard to run more than one hunchentoot server with different settings. I'm thinking virtual hosts.

To keep it short:

• do you agree?

Yes. The reason is Hunchentoot's heritage from TBNL which was a single-server library. And the fact that I myself almost never use more than one server per image.

• if yes, do you think it will be changed?

I'm pretty busy right now, so don't hold your breath. But, yes, it will be changed one day.

• would you take patches in this direction if I ever happen to get

around to do it?

Sure. However, I get a lot of patches where I finally end up re-writing most of what I received which really doesn't save time. What I'd like to see is:

- Follow the coding and indentation conventions I use elsewhere in the code.

- Don't use tab characters.

- Every function/variable/class/slot/etc. should have a reasonable documentation string.

- The patch should include updates to the HTML documentation as well (if necessary).

Yes, I'm anal about this, sorry.

Anyway - apart from that I'm always happy to incorporate patches. And if I like the new code enough, I might also end up doing the work listed above myself. But it'll be faster if someone else has already done so.

Thanks, Edi.