Understood, it can wait for sure. If need be we can apply the patch on our version and use a custom build.
Thanks Willy! On Jan 22, 2016 12:52 AM, "Willy Tarreau" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Pradeep, > > On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 02:51:51PM +0530, Pradeep Jindal wrote: > > Hi Willy, > > > > Haven't we merged the "agent-send" feature in 1.6? If not, is it possible > > to merge it? > > I'd rather avoid if not absolutely required. What we've seen in the past > is that people pick configs found on blogs and try to use them with their > distros then don't understand why some directives are not supported, just > because the distro runs on a specific version and backports fixes only. > That's in part why we stopped backporting features to stable versions with > 1.5. The other reason is that we broke 1.4 multiple times by backporting > small things that we couldn't revert later because of users using them, > and had great difficulties fixing (eg: send-name-header). > > Do you *really* need it in 1.6 now or can this wait for 1.7 in 7-8 months ? > > Note I'm not strongly opposed, I'm just being very careful to avoid later > regrets as I've been used to this a lot over the years. > > Just let me know (and others as well, it's possible that some people are > definitely opposed to a backport and I'll respect that since it's the > default policy, just like some other people might want it). > > I recommend, users decide and I obey, you see. > > Willy > >
