Hi everyone,
I wanted to get input from everyone about some changes I have in store
for an eventual FreeIPMI 1.7.X release.
In 2019 the IPMI specification was no longer being updated. With IPMI
sort of now "finalized", I figure the 1.7.X might be the last "minor
number increment" of FreeIPMI. With that knowledge I wanted to clean up
the code and remove some legacy / deprecated stuff.
For most users, you probably don't even know these outputs / command
line options exist. For example, in some tools you can specify
`--flush-cache` or `-f`, with the `-f` short option being hidden /
undocumented. It's ony b/c it was supported in some tools a long time
ago but not others. Similar for some legacy config file option names
and even default config file locations.
Everything that I've removed is from pre-FreeIPMI 1.4.1, i.e. from
FreeIPMI 1.3.4 and earlier. FreeIPMI 1.4.1 was released in March 2014,
so this only concerns folks that might have written scripts in 2013 or
earlier.
A detailed list of potential changes here:
https://github.com/chu11/freeipmi-mirror/blob/master/NEWS
Would anyone have any gross objection to these removals?
Al
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Albert Chu
Livermore Computing
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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