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perbu at varnish-software

Jul 18, 2013, 3:52 AM

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Adding certain vmods to the distribution

Hi.

There are certain vmods that are really very useful. I think it makes sense
to add some of these to the Varnish distribution so they will be readily
available for all our users.

In particular I'm thinking about the variable (variables in vcl), boltsort
(querystring argument sorting) and cookie (cookie manipulation) vmods.

What do you think?
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magnus at hagander

Jul 18, 2013, 4:06 AM

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Re: Adding certain vmods to the distribution [In reply to]

On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 11:52 AM, Per Buer <perbu [at] varnish-software>wrote:

> Hi.
>
> There are certain vmods that are really very useful. I think it makes
> sense to add some of these to the Varnish distribution so they will be
> readily available for all our users.
>
> In particular I'm thinking about the variable (variables in vcl), boltsort
> (querystring argument sorting) and cookie (cookie manipulation) vmods.
>
> What do you think?
>

+1 - or more if I get more votes :)

In particular, getting it included in the RPMs and DEBs will make a big
difference. I don't particularly care if they're in the source tarball, but
the fact that it's quite a PITA to get them installed if your starting
point is RPM or DEB is a real bummer today.

If they were either to be in the varnish package, or just there were an
extra package like varnish-modules or something like that available in the
same repositories, that would be extremely helpful.

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mattias at nucleus

Jul 18, 2013, 4:35 AM

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Re: Adding certain vmods to the distribution [In reply to]

In particular I'm thinking about the variable (variables in vcl), boltsort (querystring argument sorting) and cookie (cookie manipulation) vmods.

What do you think?

If they're included in official packages users would assume they are officially supported by Varnish Software as well, is that the case?
If not, how would you make it bluntly obvious that they are user contributed 'at your own risk'?

Regards,
Mattias

perbu at varnish-software

Jul 18, 2013, 5:04 AM

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Re: Adding certain vmods to the distribution [In reply to]

On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 1:35 PM, Mattias Geniar <mattias [at] nucleus> wrote:

> In particular I'm thinking about the variable (variables in vcl),
>> boltsort (querystring argument sorting) and cookie (cookie manipulation)
>> vmods.
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
>
> If they're included in official packages users would assume they are
> officially supported by Varnish Software as well, is that the case?
>

It would be. The modules would be moved from their various github
repositories to the varnish-cache git tree and maintained there, have tests
that would be run on release etc.

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allard at byte

Jul 18, 2013, 11:57 AM

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Re: Adding certain vmods to the distribution [In reply to]

+1!

Alsof, vmod-header would be awesome.

Best,

Allard

varnish at bsdchicks

Jul 18, 2013, 1:03 PM

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Re: Adding certain vmods to the distribution [In reply to]

I would humbly suggest urlcode, it's tiny.

On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 8:57 PM, Allard Hoeve <allard [at] byte> wrote:

> +1!
>
> Alsof, vmod-header would be awesome.
>
> Best,
>
> Allard
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jos at dwim

Jul 18, 2013, 1:27 PM

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Re: Adding certain vmods to the distribution [In reply to]

On 18 Jul 2013, at 04:06, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> In particular, getting it included in the RPMs and DEBs will make a big difference. I don't particularly care if they're in the source tarball, but the fact that it's quite a PITA to get them installed if your starting point is RPM or DEB is a real bummer today.

Agreed; if it were easy/possible to have our vmods
hosted from the varnish debian repository (and a way
to have them built against different versions of
varnish?), that'd be a huge win.

May even negate the need to bundle them with the
varnish distribution itself.

My $0.02;

-Jos
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