Re: [cgiapp] CGI::Session update

["Jason A. Crome" <suppressed>]

As soon as I get a few Subversion questions answered, I'll have this set 
up  :)   After which time I'll start digging into things.

Think that it might be beneficial to make a list of things we intend to 
improve/fix, and then see if people are interested in taking a 
particular piece?  Here is my personal list, covering both branches:

- Improving test coverage
- Fix documentation inconsitencies (there are a few)
- Fix session expiration, or verify that session expiration is now working
- Verify compatibility with CGI::Simple and CGI::Safe
- Inconsistent driver interfaces
- Asinine requirement that all drivers must be lowercase (WTF? ;)

There's likely more, but I'm too sleep deprived to think of them right 
now ;)

Jason

Mark Stosberg wrote:
> For those just tuning in:
>
> A group of CGI::App users have decided to 'phalanx' CGI::Session, which
> is to say we have taken it upon ourselves to improve it. To that end,
> one or more source control repos will be setup to faciliate group
> development. 
>
> I have just contacted the author and await his response about how to
> best collaborate with him. (However, we don't need to wait on his
> response to continue setting up our infrastructure). 
>
> I have also just reviewed what's new in the 4.x branch, which I'll repeat
> below. In summary, I think these are generally the kinds of things
> we would end up adding ourselves if we started with the 3.x branch as a
> base.
>
> Therefore, (contradicting what I've said before), I think the 4.x branch should
> be our primary development branch. I do however think our first order of
> business should be confirming compatibility with the 3.x branch, which I know
> many of us care about it. 
>
> That should not be a hard project to get started on-- we can simply copy over the
> tests from the 3.x test suite as a starting point. 
>
> Another good first-stage task would be to run Devel::Cover on the project and
> see where there are tests missing. 
>
> I know Jason is in the process of graciously setting up an SVN server for us.
> I may also go ahead and set up a darcs repo soon too, realizing that we can use
> 'tailor.py' to provide a two-way sync so that both are useful. 
>
> Finally, if there are concerns that this side-project will generate two
> much noise on this list, we can take the conversation elsewhere, such as
> the CGI::Sessions user list (which seems to be unfortunately quiet). 
>
>     Mark
>
> 4.00_08 - Tuesday, March 15, 2005
>
>     * FIX: Changes made in 4.00_07 rolled back
>
> 4.00_07 - Sunday, March 13, 2005
>
>     * FIX: overloaded objects are now stored properly
>
> 4.00_06 - Thursday, February 24, 2005
>
>     * FIX (?): a test script was failing on Win32
>     * FIX: inaccurate error reporting in load()
>
> 4.00_05 - Tuesday, February 22, 2005
>
>     * FIX: case insesitivity was not enforced properly in CGI::Session::parse_dsn()
>
> 4.00_04 - Wednesday, February 16, 2005
>
>     * FIX: Minor fix in tests suits and error-checking routines of
>       serializers and id-generators
>
> 4.00_03 - Friday, February 11, 2005
>
>     * NEW: CGI::Session::find() introduced
>     * NEW: traverse() introduced into drivers to support CGI::Session::find()
>     * DOCS: More complete driver specs documented
>
> 4.00_02 - Wednesday, February 09, 2005
>
>     * FIX: race conditions in Driver/file.pm pointed out by Martin Bartosch
>
> 4.00_01 - Wednesday, February 09, 2005
>
>     * NEW: load() - constructor method to prevent unnecessary session creations
>     * NEW: is_expired() - method to intercept expired sessions
>     * NEW: is_empty() - to intercept requests for unexisting sessions
>     * NEW: more optimized source code
>     * NEW: updated and improved driver specs
>     * NEW: standard testing framework
>     * NEW: 'sqlite' driver


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