[Tracker] Known Issues

[vifino]

There are a few known issues with Carbon. This can also be seen as a TODO or status list.

• Lua-side Issues
  • Binding Values is buggy
    • Buggy in regards to binding Go Chans and similar non-lua stuff. Binding one Chan seems to work, but two... Nope!
      • Middleware/Routes
      • Threads
        • Use msgpack to do the transfer, Go Chans and similar non lua stuff is bound via temporary kvstore entries.
  • Better Errors
    • Better Error checking in wrapper functions, tells you if you do something wrong.
    • Better Syntax Errors, panic() isn't very pleasing...
  • Startup Issues
    • Default configuration sucks, make it actual lua code!
      • Done in v1.2.1!
    • Doesn't always start on low-end machines, not sure if fixable.
  • Templates
    • Rendering templates works fine, simple gsub implementations!
  • VHOSTs
  • Carbon usable in scripts via #!/usr/bin/env carbon or similar
  • Carbon usable as interpreter of trepl from Torch7
    • Works! Only thing that did not was the argument name, which I fixed. trepl is quite cool.
  • Database support
    • NoSQL
      • Got redis! I don't see a need for anything else. Redis is very popular and good.
    • SQL
      • See Database support #7, when merged, will have support for mysql, postgres and sqlite3. Should be enough for most people.
  • Tests
    • I kinda started on that long ago, but neither the Lua tests nor the Go tests are really great.. If existant at all! :D
• Proper Wiki/Docs, documenting...
  • Usage in Lua
  • Middleware
    • mw.new()
      • Functions/APIs in detail
        • Most stuff is documented now.
  • Architecture
  • Inner Workings
  • Compatibility/Porting Guide
  • Examples
    • Basic stuff only.
• CI
  • https://circleci.com/gh/carbonsrv/carbon is now a thing!
  • https://travis-ci.org/carbonsrv/carbon is also one.
• Docker
  • https://hub.docker.com/r/carbonsrv/carbon/
  • It should be expandable, so you could make one for your app or something.