On Wed, Aug 18, 2010, Gregory Edigarov wrote: > Meta1, which is viewed by some as a "sendmail made right" is still in > very deep pre-alpha state... what a pity.
Despite being called "pre-alpha" MeTA1 runs without problems for years at various sites. It's in pre-alpha to make my life easier: I can make changes without offering backward compatibility. While I try to avoid that, it reduces my workload if those changes are deemed necessary (however, I provided scripts/instructions for upgrading each time this happened). Alternatively, I could just go through the release process to make MeTA1-1.0.0 available and then start MeTA1-2.0.PreAlpha0, but I'm not sure whether that's the right thing to do. Do quote the MeTA1 docs: PreAlpha: This means the software is not feature complete and hence might be missing some functionality that is considered important by different users. Additionally, there might be no compatibility in data structures stored on disk between different pre-alpha versions, e.g., when upgrading from PreAlpha16 to PreAlpha17 the main queue format may have changed without checks in the software for this. Hence old queues must be drained before upgrading. Moreover, the protocols used for communication between MeTA1 modules may have changed without providing backward compatibility, therefore modules from different releases must not be used together. Such incompatibilities are usually stated in the list of changes.
