Serveez

This release of Serveez comes along with an updated build system using the recent autotool's packages. It provides a new configure switch for some thread safety functionality and provides a man page for the `serveez-config' script. Some updates and bugfixes have been applied to Serveez's Guile interface, also regarding Guile 1.7.x versions. The new (instantiate-config-type!) procedure allows users of the C API to support arbitrary types of configurations in the Guile interface. Finally, Serveez's core API has been improved and stabilized.

Lots of bugfixes were made in the internal
coservers, as well as in the Guile server
implementation. Support for HP-UX platforms and
urgent (out-of-band) data on stream-like network
connections have been added. The socket objects
now provide trigger callbacks and the server
objects provide a reset callback invoked when
SIGHUP occurred. The standard input of the program
can be used as configuration file. The Guile
server documentation was partly rewritten and
updated. A simplified icecast Guile server
demonstrates the usage of the coservers from
Guile.

The built-time behavior has been greatly improved. Serveez now supports cross-compilation and provides workarounds for SunOS/Solaris and MacOS X quirks. New features include basic coserver functionality, Guile version 1.3 backward compatibility code, and RPC service support in the Guile frontend. The builtin HTTP server now supports partial contents. The core library is able to do INADDR_ANY as well as SO_BINDTODEVICE bindings. It also supports mixing any possible bind option.

The Guile server support is finally meant to be a stable feature of
Serveez. A Mandelbrot computation server and client have been
implemented, which demonstrate this functionality. The new codec
interface of the Serveez core library is now also available in the
Win32 binary release. Both the new bzip2 codec and the zlib codec have
been added. Also included is an inetd replacement Guile script. This
has been possible since the new program passthrough server came
up. The new server can accept connections and pass the data
transactions to a program's stdin/stdout.

A zlib codec has been implemented. There is a specification for a transparent codec interface. There is a working named pipe interface under Windows. The chat server master protocol has been modified to use textSure v1.3. A virtually unlimited number of socket structures are allowed. This release includes a faster HTTP file cache, automatic coserver restart on buffer overrun or death, loadable server modules, and Guile server examples and documentation. Guile servers can be enabled via --enable-guile-server.