---------------------------------------------------------------------- Intro ---------------------------------------------------------------------- These are release notes for ocamlnet-2.2. In general, the stability of this version is excellent. About 90 % of the code has been taken over from previous versions of ocamlnet, equeue, netclient, and rpc, and this means that this code is already mature. About 10 % of the code has been newly developed: - netcgi2 is a revised version of the cgi library. Large parts are completely new. - netplex is the new server framework. Fortunately, it could already be used in a production environment, and it has proven excellent stability there. - netcgi2-plex combines netcgi2 and netplex. - nethttpd has now the option to use netcgi2 as cgi provider (configure option -prefer-netcgi2). - netshm adds shared memory support. - equeue-ssl and rpc-ssl add SSL support to the RPC libraries. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Known Problems ---------------------------------------------------------------------- There are known problems in this preview release: - There is no good concept to manage signals. This is currently done ad-hoc. For now, this does not make any problems, or better, there is always the workaround that the user sets the signal handlers manually if any problems occur. - The new cookie implementation of netcgi2 should replace the old one in netstring. Users should be prepared that Netcgi.Cookie will eventually become Nethttp.Cookie in one of the next releases. - In netcgi2-plex, the "mount_dir" and "mount_at" options are not yet implemented. - In netclient, aggressive caching of HTTP connections is still buggy. Do not use this option (by default, it is not enabled). - The FTP client is still incomplete. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Resources ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The current development version is available in Subversion: https://gps.dynxs.de/svn/lib-ocamlnet Note that the ocamlnet file tree in Sourceforge refers to ocamlnet-1 only. There is a mailing list for Ocamlnet development: http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=19774 In case of problems, you can also contact me directly: Gerd Stolpmann <gerd@gerd-stolpmann.de>
