IRCd:Future Directions

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