Todo items that need to be looked at for 0.90

[Havoc Pennington]

John (J5) Palmieri wrote:
>>> 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.
> 

Anyone lurking with some free time this weekend? Would save someone else 
a lot of weird protocol compatibility hacks if trying to add SASL support.

Havoc