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) ::


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