On Wed, 09 Jun 2004 10:35:25 +0100 Dave wrote:
DS> > My proposal:
DS> >
DS> > 1) new token for new mib ('extend'?)
DS> > 2) document new token in man page. Mark old option as deprecated
DS> > 3) optionally log warning at startup for old token
DS> > 4) in a future release, drop old token support
DS>
DS> But the more I think about it, I suspect your plan above is a reasonable
DS> one. The only significant variation I'd sugges might be to issue warnings
DS> (and eventually drop) the relocatable form of "exec", rather than the
DS> whole token completely.
So there would be a new token for the relocatable form? That sounds reasonable.
DS> On balance, I'd still prefer to change the behaviour immediately,
DS> but I can well understand the reasons to proceed more cautiously.
DS> Would you be happy with deprecating this in 5.2 and dropping it in 5.3?
Sure.
DS> Majority support? Hah!
DS> There seems to be a general lack of interest in any aspect of the
DS> development of this package at the moment :-(
I'll have to disagree with you there! Win32 has made leaps and bounds of
progress lately. Mike is helping make a dent in the bug list. I've got a whole
new style conf file for mib2c, along with new mib implementations. Bruce is
working on keeping Solaris happy.
What kind of interest have you seen in the past that seems to be missing now?
DS> I'm going through another phase of wondering how long we'll be able
DS> to continue to keep it going and supported properly.....
Hmmm. Given that we're all volunteers, I think we're doing ok. As for 'proper
support', it probably wouldn't hurt if we agreed on a time frame/release to
focus on clearing out the bug back-log instead of the fun stuff (new features).
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