IRCd:Future Directions

Revision as of 19:38, 17 February 2009

Here is a list of several possible future enhancements or changes to ircd-darenet.

Refactoring

Changes to the code structure to improve maintainability.

• A tuple-queue system
• Modularized commands
• A more modularized abstracted database
• Dynamically loadable modules
• A unified mode parser
• Better logging infrastructure, with simplified and powerful configuration
• Updated configuration feature handling
• New event subsystem
• Unified memory allocation
• Unit tests
• Clean up code responsibilities
• Deferred client freeing
• Phase out silently failing functions

Performance improvements

• Trie-based lookups

New features

The term "feature" is used liberally here; anything that changes the way the network works is a feature by some definition. This includes, for example, dealing with desynchronized servers, handling net joins, managing users and channels, etc.

• Modularized protocol handlers (both sending and receiving)
• Remote Includes
• Enhanced Server Notices
• Binary server-to-server protocol
• Persistent clients