Todo items that need to be looked at for 0.90

[John (J5) Palmieri]

On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 21:31 -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> John (J5) Palmieri wrote:
> > Here is the short list of todos that need to be looked into before we
> > can do a 0.90 release, with comments:
> > 
> > 
> > Group DBusAuth 
> >         some SASL profiles require sending the empty string as a
> >         challenge/response, but we don't currently allow that in our
> >         protocol.
> >         
> > Does our protocol still not allow this.  What would it take to make this
> > work and is it a blocker for 0.90?
> > 
> 
> IIRC the issue is that the format is just
> KEYWORD ARG
> 
> i.e. not quotes or anything, so empty string looks like you just forgot 
> the arg:
> KEYWORD
> 
> The protocol could be changed to e.g. require quotes on that arg. I 
> think there's probably a "quoted string parser" already (used for e.g. 
> signal match rules? I don't know) if so that could simply be used.
> 
> Since there's no current sasl profile we rely on that requires this, I 
> think it could be punted if necessary and some ugly protocol versioning 
> or special keyword used to fix it later. But it's perhaps simple to fix 
> so could be worth doing.

I looked at this and while it didn't look hard it did look time
consuming.  I'm going to have to punt on this since I have other things
I need to get done before this Wednesday along with D-Bus.

-- 
John (J5) Palmieri <johnp at redhat.com>