Today, Jason A. Smith wrote forth saying... > I think it is more a matter of precedence, which rule is more important. > Everything I know of that reads files like this, the comment starts with > the # and goes to the end of the line, no continuation unless there is > another # on the next line. The backslash continuation is only for > lines that are read in, as soon as the parser sees the # it should > ignore the rest of the line. Multi-line comments are usually enclosed > in a block with definite beginning and ending sequences. > > But this is probably all moot for g3. Will there be any more ganglia > 2.5.x releases for maintenance purposes in case people want to take > their time to switch over to g3 since it will be a major change?
yep and g3 will be as compatible with g2 as possible (a.k.a. how much time i have to write compat code). currently g3 has the ability to read and process g2 data streams for example. -matt
