On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 07:50:11PM -0500, Tavin Cole wrote:
> It seems almost everyone (including Ian and Gianni) wants to go ahead
> with merging the new_datastore branch back to the cvs head, although
> its stability is still questionable, and there is one serious known bug
> (garbage data read from the store when first downloading a key).  This
> bug is likely to cause mass dereferencing.

Perhaps some explanation is nescessary.  It is clear that having two
branches was really inhibiting development, people were reluctant to
commit to one branch or another, for fear that their changes would be
lost.  With respect to dereferencing, I haven't noticed this - not to
say that the problem doesn't exist, but I am confident that the
new_datastore code is of at least comparable stability to the current
HEAD branch.

> So be warned, the stability of the cvs code and snapshots will be quite
> treacherous in the near future (particularly while the merge is in
> progress, I'd avoid cvs entirely until it's done..)

I have disabled snapshot generation for the moment, those who don't want
to use the new datastore code should use today's snapshot, although I
hope that everyone pitches in to test the new code.

As soon as Tavin has done the merge, I will move it to the new freenet
module and do some work to provide useful scripts and other tools to
make live that little bit more pleasant for developers and users alike.

Ian.

-- 
Ian Clarke                                        ian at freenetproject.org
Founder & Coordinator, The Freenet Project    http://freenetproject.org/
Chief Technology Officer, Uprizer Inc.           http://www.uprizer.com/
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