Key: *-An important Item that needs to be finished B-Initial of person who needs to fix this (Binki) M-LordofWar needs to fix this E-normaldotcom needs to fix this x-finished task =-Long-term goal Notes: Initial release will no longer feature SSH auth, distrend will handle auth telnet-style. User registration will be done via PHP. Build 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 *-Add calls to remotio -Write more meat into the pseudo-code main() to pull everything together -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, ... *-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. -rename some struct members and variables to be more program-agnostic and more sensible (e.g., no blender-specific stuff) Slave -Fix current bugs *-Add calls to remoteio, once it works or even before it works *-Other XML-writing/reading: Update exec_blender() to use some struct info, maybe. The struct is being passed to it. =-Make code more flexible for different types of jobs and operating systems (such as paths, libs, etc) -Add code to allow pausing/resuming of the slave (including a running blender process) B-Add tmpdir variable (just like the datadir variable) that is compile-time or whatever *-Finish stub to delete old job data and output =-Upload while rendering Options -Rewrite some stuff, try to make it simpler x-Move server and client confuse code into their individual files, rather than in the common file. -- note: there wasn't any client code in options.c. There was the ``server'' section. That section is passed multiple times and provides information to remoteio on how to connect to servers -Review all confuse interfacing -Push patch for relative includes in confuse to the confuse developers B-Expand execio() to support stderr