On Mon, 07 Jun 2004 17:00:09 +0100 Dave wrote:
DS> The reason I'm mentioning it here, is to float the idea of dropping
DS> the 'ucd-snmp/extensible' module completely - as from v5.2
Gack! I don't like the sound of that at all!
DS> The advantage of doing so is that it avoids the need to have two
DS> parallel configure directives ("exec" and "exec2", etc). The agent
DS> would simply continue to provide the same 'UCD-SNMP-MIB::extTable'
DS> but this would be duplicated by the (fuller) NET-SNMP-EXTEND-MIB
DS> information.
I can see the appeal of that.
DS> The disadvantage of doing this is that the output of the "relocatable"
DS> form of the exec directive (i.e. "exec .1.2.3.4.5 ....") would change
DS> (to match the full NET-SNMP-EXTEND-MIB structure, rather than the
DS> current variant form of the UCD-SNMP-MIB::extTable)
Breaking scripts and such that might depend on the behaviour, however broken it
is.
DS> Normally, I wouldn't even contemplate suggesting this before v6,
DS> but the current output does not actually form a legal MIB structure,
DS> so I'm much less worried about {breaking|fixing} this at a
DS> minor-release point.
DS>
DS> But what do other people think?
I'd say there should be a configure option to choose the new/old style
implementation. I'm on the fence about what the default should be. Give that it
changes behaviour, I'd lean slightly towards defaulting to the old behaviour.
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