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

[Tomasz Bursztyka]

Too used to "reply to all". well...


> 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
>>
>
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