Simo Sorce wrote: > On Fri, 2015-03-20 at 15:30 +0100, Petr Spacek wrote: >> On 20.3.2015 14:19, Simo Sorce wrote: >>> This is not sufficient, older 3.3 and 4.x servers can't be changed and >>> we MUST be compatible with those. >>> Basically the plan MUST work with already released servers, this is a >>> constraint that cannot be releaxed, please work within this limitations. >> >> Currently new clients do not work with older servers, right? >> >> Maybe we should do one more (last!) release like that and do a big cut after >> that. It would make the design so much easier if the new (supposedly thin) >> client does not need to support ancient servers which had only 'fat' clients. > > People are using 3.3 and 4.1 now, we want to support them too, whatever > it takes. > For future clients we can do whatever fancy automated thin client and > what not, and in time drop support for very old releases, but 3.3 and < > 4.2 are going to be around for quite a while and we need to support > those server in the clients.
I think 3.0 should be the baseline. It will around another few years at least. rob -- Manage your subscription for the Freeipa-devel mailing list: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/freeipa-devel Contribute to FreeIPA: http://www.freeipa.org/page/Contribute/Code
