On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 04:51:47PM -0800, Ian Clarke wrote: > 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.
We shall soon find out. > > 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. The merge is done. If you do switch modules please do change the package name. I can give you some perl to do it nearly effortlessly. I'll also give you a list of dirs that need to be kept. -- :: tavin cole (tcole at espnow.com) :: _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl at freenetproject.org http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devl
