roamd 0.2.7 to-do list

• Support alternate preferences based on what interface you're coming in on. I need this to be able to roam home from work, since my home mail server's address is dynamic, and different from the one used on my home LAN.
  • A simple way to do this:
    • Add an option to run roamd on a single interface
    • Add configurability to specify certain preferences that override whatever's stored in the file
    • In those overriding prefs, permit variable expansion to get the IP address of the interface the connection is arriving on.
  • This does have the disadvantage that, if my SMTP server at work changes (for example), I can't change it in the GUI; I have to edit the roamd configuration. I think I can live with that.
  • Or perhaps, if roamd doesn't send an SMTP setting, the one set in the GUI will persist?
• Write an install script
• Try it out on more OSes
• Come up with some way of doing a conditional Makefile without being tied to GNU make (I'll probably have to run a preprocessor on the Makefile).
• Make it be a daemon
• inetd support?
• Revisit the MPL/GPL decision

Completed items:

• Support MOVE so that users don't have to hack their prefs to use roamd.
• SO_REUSEADDR?
• SIGPIPE?
• Support parallel access (probably just by fork()ing).

$Revision: 1.20 $
$Author: francis $
$Date: 1999/03/21 01:53:45 $

$Log: todo.html,v $
Revision 1.20  1999/03/21 01:53:45  francis
Documenting 0.2.7

Revision 1.19  1999/01/11 16:29:07  francis
Documenting the 0.2.6b releaselet

Revision 1.18  1999/01/11 16:20:39  francis
Documenting the 0.2.6a releaselet

Revision 1.17  1999/01/11 16:13:14  francis
Adding SIGPIPE

Revision 1.16  1998/12/17 20:07:55  francis
Disabling the debug in de64(), it being a security risk

Revision 1.15  1998/12/13 06:46:33  francis
Documenting improved platform support for 0.2.6

Revision 1.14  1998/12/13 06:38:20  francis
Documenting changes for 0.2.5

Revision 1.13  1998/12/11 16:33:44  francis
Updating for 0.2.4 release

Revision 1.12  1998/12/09 16:16:36  francis
Documenting an idea on how to support alternate prefs

Revision 1.11  1998/12/09 05:12:25  francis
Documenting that it's been tested on FreeBSD.
Removing GNU-make-specific code from the Makefile; documenting that.
Renumbering as 0.2.3.

Revision 1.10  1998/12/09 05:02:03  francis
Adding MPL/GPL

Revision 1.9  1998/12/09 04:52:41  francis
Adding documentation which I should have done for 0.2.1.  Releasing as 0.2.2

Revision 1.8  1998/12/09 04:33:50  francis
Labelling it 0.2.1

Revision 1.7  1998/12/08 23:30:40  francis
Adding a couple of things suggested by Marc Slemko 

Revision 1.6  1998/12/06 23:14:18  francis
Adding daemon & inetd support to todo.html

Revision 1.5  1998/12/06 19:48:53  francis
Labelling it version 0.2

Revision 1.4  1998/12/06 19:43:11  francis
Documenting that MOVE is now supported.

Revision 1.3  1998/12/04 21:38:25  francis
Adding the readme; adding parallel access and porting work to the todo list.

Revision 1.2  1998/12/04 20:58:47  francis
Linking "hack their prefs" to the Netscape explanation of how to set
up roaming access.

Revision 1.1  1998/12/04 20:55:05  francis
Adding a to-do list.