Hello Roxen users. The Caudium Group is excited to announce
Caudium. Please read the following and visit our websites at
http://caudium.net/ and http://caudium.org/ for more information.
What is Caudium? The Caudium Group?
Caudium is a new webserver based on the Roxen 1.3 CVS source
from the end of June. The group is a bunch of Roxen users that
are unhappy with the direction that the Roxen development is
heading. We decided that we could create a server that would
better serve our needs than Roxen 2.x
What is wrong with Roxen 2.x?
In our opinion, many things. The loss in speed and stability
are two major issues. Portability problems are another big
issue. However the main problem is with how the development
works. It's basically a completely closed cycle with no public
future plans and no bug tracking. The lack of respect for the
small but traditionally loyal Roxen community is appalling.
Isn't a split bad for the community?
We believe such a split already exist between the Roxen 1.3
users and those converted to Roxen 2.x. If anything Caudium
will give the 1.3 users (which are the greater majority of the
Community) a logical upgrade which doesn't require hours, days
or even weeks of converting RXML.
What about compatibility?
We plan to be completely Roxen 1.3 compatible, both the Pike
API and RXML. We have done some and will do more changes, but
everything that would break previous things will be have
defines to enable/disable the compatibility. Modules written
for Caudium can run in Roxen 1.3, if you use the 1.3 API or
check for CAUDIUM and do different behavior depending on if
it's defined or not (like inheriting caudiumlib instead of
roxenlib etc).
What is the benefit of Caudium over Roxen 1.3?
It is maintained and actively developed, first of all. We also
include a fast log parser, UltraLog. UltraLog was previously a
separate project but is now merged with Caudium. Other
benefits include PiXSL (XSLT parser), C-code versions of CPU
intensive parsing, general bug fixes ("can't reload in MSIE"
is fixed for example). Caudium also works with anything from
Pike 0.6.116 to Pike 7.1 CVS. The community aspect is also
better with public bug tracking, task lists, cvs commit
mailinglist etc.
Support for Roxen 2.0 features?
This is a tricky question. We all like certain things of
Roxen 2.0 and do plan to add support for some things, like a
emit (or a similar tag). Entities are nice but harder for us
to implement. It might be fixed though. We plan to add an XML
compliant RXML parser (which you can opt to use over the old
one) and more. In general, we will not make a major effort of
being 2.0 compatible but will try to add things we (and you)
like.
OS Support?
Our goal is that Caudium should run on any UN*X operating
system where Pike works and support dynamic loading. We have
no plans of supporting Windows.
How do I help?
Get on our mailing list and/or the news forums. Report bugs
and suggest tasks. Contribute code and/or patches. If you
prove your skill and willingness to help, you might get write
access to the CVS tree.
Sounds interesting. How do I find out more?
Go to our websites. http://caudium.net/ is the "product
information" site. It has information about our plans, answers
questions about the fork, has download instructions
etc. http://caudium.org/ is the community site. It's still in
early development but contains information about mailing lists,
forums, our IRC channel, tracking and tasks.
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David Hedbor, The Caudium Group
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