source: branches/ithildin-win32/TODO @ 591

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There are two sets of lists here.  The first is the list for desired core
functionality.  The second is the list for desired module functionality.  In
some cases the two may have overlapping features.  Additionally, milestones and
a release path are provided.

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Core system (source/*)
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The core system is largely finished and will receive only minor functtionality
updates from this point on (hopefully).  As such the list of work  to be done
is short, and will hopefully remain short.

For 1.2:
 - Add an option to output PID to a file (duh?)
 - Make the configuration reader modular (support for bindconf and XML at
   least)
 - Make the configuration reader do better error checking (allow spec files
   with all possible options to be supplied which will allow for unknown value
   checks and the like)
 - Write /dev/poll support (anybody want to contribute a Solaris box for me to
   test this on? :)
 - Add support for compressed socket connections (using zlib I guess)
 - Change the hook API to use varargs to make it easier to pass data around
For 2.0:
 - All of the above and..
 - Add a real string handling system.  This will consist of a few smaller
   categories:
   . Create a string type with accompanying functions that cannot be
     overflowed using documented APIs and will grow as necessary/desired.
   . Add support for at least UTF-8 handling and translation tables.
   . Take the ircd module's "message format' code and generalize it a little
     more
 - Add threading support.  This will wrap the local thread implementation
   and provide some extra bonuses like easier condition variable use and
   some extra statistics.
 - win32 support
 - re-assess multibyte character support.  right now I wrap the libc
   functions for strings to not bother with it (efficiency) but the world is
   moving that way, so perhaps that's not a good idea.
 - re-assess module dependency graphs.  it might make more sense for
   dependent modules to be compiled with links to the shared libs they need
   rather than the whole EXPORT_SYMBOL tomfoolery i do now

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Proxy scanning module (modules/proxyscan/*)
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The proxy scanner is largely finished, and needs only minor changes
(hopefully).

 - Fix the HTTP proxy scanner to handle broken HTTP servers which do not return
   proper replies for requests, but still detect broken HTTP servers which are
   open but return no reply at all.
 - Fix the cacheing/etc system to handle huge influxes of queries, and create
   backlogs if necessary.
 - Add some kind of support to store found proxies in a database, and work with
   the db to handle repeat offenders.

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Non-blocking DNS module (modules/dns/*)
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The dns module is mostly finished.

 - Add referer/CNAME support (usually not necessary)
 - Add TCP socket support to handle 'tc' packets