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RE: [circle] Roadmap for 1.0 ??


From: Thomas Mangin
Subject: RE: [circle] Roadmap for 1.0 ??
Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2003 16:01:25 +0100

On Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 01:57:57PM +0100, Thomas Mangin wrote:
> What about this ..
>
> Have to be done:
>  - Web Site revamp and newbies oriented (like all good website)
>  - Simpler UI (copy emule for example, look xmule if your are under Linux)
>  - Stability improvement
>  - Easy installer/Installation (see Null Soft installer)
>  - Reduce application footprint/Responsiveness

|Apart from the website revamp, these all sound fairly major. :(
|How much of the current circle would remain?

UI rewamp may involve moving a lot of code move but few coding.
Stability would require extensive debugging but not necessary a lot of
coding, but it would be very time consuming. You could argue that the only
way to achieve it is to rewrite circle but I was not suggesting that.
The nullsoft installer is quite simple and we could install all the
necessary file with circle (GTK libs, etc) it should not be too hard.
The application responsiveness is a tricky one, I have no personal view on
how to achieve it.

> Content only comes with more users ...
|I guess the question is why? :)

As they provide it :-)
If you wish a search for "<your favorite file>" to report something, you
must have someone on circle who have it :-)

> My daemon is down as every few days it put my firewall on its knees ..
> Memory leak it seems (and YES you can have memory leak with garbage
> collection ...)

|Yeah, I've come accross memory "leaks" in python before. I never did track
|them all down. :(

With the current code we may never be able to trace them down as you can not
test stress each componant and try to fault them, this require a properly
design architecture (several layer build each one on the top of the
previous) or a correct OO design.

The leak isin the way object are created and not destroyed as the garbage
collector can not notice they are not in use anymore, I do not know any
better myself.

Thomas





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