[systemd-devel] [RFC 0/6] A network proxy management daemon, systemd-proxy-discoveryd

[Tomasz Bursztyka]

Hi Lucas,

Maybe, maybe not.

It was not said publicly in that thread, but some systemd guys are 
nacking this
due to the JS engine it would provide.
Tom contacted me in private to tell me this is put on hold (though 
himself, he really
want that service to get in, as Lennart and David). I guess the time 
people get convinced
somehow.

I'll probably come back to that in the end of September, I am fully busy 
with other
things right now. If there is really nothing to be done on systemd side, 
then there
loss. We will improve PACrunner and that's it.

Br,

Tomasz


> Hi Tomasz,
>
> On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 9:17 AM, Tomasz Bursztyka
> <tomasz.bursztyka at linux.intel.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> As it has been discussed in the systemd hackfest during the Linux Conference
>> Europe, one daemon could centralize the management of all network proxy
>> configurations. Idea is something user can do per-application (like in
>> firefox for instance) or broader (per-DM like in Gnome), user could do it
>> once and for all through such daemon and applications would then request it
>> to know whether or not a proxy has to be used and which one.
>>
>> As a notice, this is nothing new. Such standalone daemon has been already
>> done by the past, pacrunner. systemd-proxy-discoveryd will more or less
>> implement the same ideas with improvements. It will get rid of big JS
>> engines like spidermonkey or v8 which are overkill for the tiny PAC files
>> to be executed on, for instance. From pacrunner experience, APIs will be
>> also improved.
>>
>> This one is using - at least in this RFC - the duktape JS engine to run
>> the PAC files. Note it is not provided in this patchset. Latest version
>> 1.2.x was used.
>>
>> Next features to come are a bit detailed in the TODO (last patch).
>>
>> Tomasz Bursztyka (6):
>>    proxy-discoveryd: Basic core added
>>    proxy-discoveryd: Add the basics for parsing the default configuration
>>    proxy-discoveryd: Add PAC support through duktape js engine
>>    proxy-discoveryd: Execute the PAC based proxy in a thread
>>    proxy-discoveryd: Add the basic parts for handling DBus methods
>>    update TODO
>
> What happened to this patch set?  Are you going to send a new version?
>
> Lucas De Marchi
>