=-Long-term goal

?-needs reconsideration/explanation/rewording

Notes:

  Initial release will no longer feature SSH auth, distrend will handle auth telnet-style. User registration will be done via PHP.

Build

General

=-documenation: manpages

Master

*-Complete testing with interactive test mode

 -update frame assigner to distribute some frames for lower-priority jobs when there's a higher priority job

?-make frame assigner not assign frames beyond the amount of frames in a single job

B-Add calls to remotio -> make API for sending messages ~= a function for every type of message defined in protocol.h

 -Write a stub for getting info from the tarball/validifying the tarball. Read distren-job.xml, a file in the tarball, to find out 1. which rendering system to use (that system, e.g. blender/povray, can read more specifics, such as name of file to pass to blender and frames. Options common between different systems will be handled in common as best as possible)

 -Write a stub for publishing file and constructing job description so that the job can be shared

*-Other XML-writing/reading such as current stats / jobs / data / etc, xml writing for job creation, ...

=-XML-RPC cgi interface for obtaining info

=-charsets: the program should operate in UTF-8. This is partially required by libxml2's (and XML's) usage of UTF-8. We want the program's internal charset to be UTF-8 and figure out if we need w_char/whatever to fulfill UTF-8. I don't believe we do... mabye we just need a declaration that al data stored must be in UTF-8 format. -> we need to consider how charsets work when and if issues come up

M-explain members of struct general_info; e.g., what is timestamp used for, what's the point of the hibernate var, etc.

Slave

*/

int sendSignal(struct remoteio *rem, char signal)

{

  size_t written;

  size_t towrite;

  char *ssignal;

  _distren_asprintf(&ssignal, "%c", signal);

  towrite = strlen(ssignal);

  while( towrite

	 && !remoteio_write(rem, ssignal, towrite, &written))

    {

      towrite -= written;

    }

  if(written)

    return 0;

  /**

     if remoteio_write returned 1, the connection

     is probably dead or there was a real error

   */

  return 1;

}

/**

   Sends the server an extended signal (request + data)

*/

int sendExtSignal(struct remoteio *rem, char signal, char *data){

  size_t written;

  size_t towrite;

  char *ssignal;

  _distren_asprintf(&ssignal, "%c%s", signal, data); // Just append the data FIXME: We should do this differently

  towrite = strlen(ssignal);

  while( towrite

          && !remoteio_write(rem, ssignal, towrite, &written))

     {

       towrite -= written;

     }

   if(written)

     return 0;

   /**

      if remoteio_write returned 1, the connection

      is probably dead or there was a real error

    */

   return 1;

}