[hunchentoot-devel] Maximum Request Size

[Edi Weitz]

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Volkan YAZICI <yazicivo at ttmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Hans Huebner for his kindly helps and Edi Weitz for his
> uninterest in any effort.

Volkan,

If you think you're somehow entitled to an immediate reply or any
action from me just because you sent a patch that is "not well tested"
and "doesn't include any documentation", you're obviously living on a
different planet or at least you don't know what it means to have a
job and a family in addition to taking care of more than a dozen open
source libraries in your spare time.  I might look at these patches if
and when I find the time to work on Hunchentoot again or I might not.
If that's not acceptable to you, the license on all of my libs always
allows you to fork them and basically do with them whatever you want.

For those of you who wonder why Hunchentoot and some other libraries
have been in limbo for quite some time now, here's a quick
explanation: A company paid Hans to make a couple of additions to
Hunchentoot which are now in the bknr.net repository.  I also worked
on this a bit in my spare time and added some code, mainly for
performance improvements.  The good thing is that due to Hans' work
the development version is much improved in several aspects over the
current release.  The bad thing is that due to Hans' and my changes
the dev versions of Hunchentoot, Chunga, and Drakma have to be
released together, because they are mutually incompatible with the
released versions.  And, for them to become acceptable (for me)
release versions, there's a certain amount of clean-up and
documentation needed that still has to be done.

Now, the deal with the afore-mentioned company was that they would pay
Hans and me to do this clean-up and integration work so that we once
again have "official" release versions that are feature-wise in sync
with the current dev versions.  This hasn't happened so far, and right
now I fail to see why I should spend a significant amount of my spare
time to do this clean-up work when I have more interesting things to
do.  /Maybe/, this will happen in the future (paid or unpaid), or
maybe there'll at some point just be another Hunchentoot release based
on 0.15.7 and the dev changes will be lost.  Until then, I think the
current release isn't perfect, but certainly something that can be
used (and is used) without significant problems.

Cheers,
Edi.