Hello Willy, On 06/11/2014 12:10 PM, Willy Tarreau wrote: > On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 12:06:11PM +0200, Olivier wrote: >>> If we had introduced this option in 1.5-dev, I would >>> have agreed, but it's been there for 4 years now since version 1.4, so >>> we should not silently break it. Also, till now we have always maintained >>> compatibility since 1.1 for all valid configs. I don't have trouble with >>> breaking some compatibility when opening 1.6-dev, but it's a bit late for >>> 1.5. >> >> I understand your point and I agree that 1.5-dev has been out for a >> while, so introducing a break a few weeks before final release is a >> bit short. >> >> Cyril's solution of handling both version with a single check is of >> course the best way but needs a bigger rewrite. If it could be done >> before 1.5 release, we would avoid the extra parameter (we would be >> stuck with it for many years ...). > > It will clearly not be done before the release. But we have all the > material in place for a later backport so I'm not worried. And we > already have some options which silently ignore some old arguments > of the past (eg: check-post for balance url-param comes to mind). > So we could have the option mandatory at the beginning and ignored > later. > >> Nenad, what's your opinion on this ? >
I think this might be the best option then. We can start of with an option and then rewrite the part to support detection of the version later on. > Willy > > Regards, -- Nenad Merdanovic | PGP: 0x423edcb2 | Web: http://nimzo.info Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/nenadmerdanovic
