On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 08:01 -0800, Wes Hardaker wrote: > I think that 5.2.2 is looking less and less useful to the > end user which makes me more and more wary of releasing it.
> But given that embedded perl is broken currently and because > snmpnetstat would have to be non-existent in it, I'm thinking > that we shouldn't release 5.2.2 as is. I'm very sympathetic to that. In which case, I think we should stand down from "release candidate" status, and revert to pre-release mode. Whether that means 5.2.2.pre4 or 5.2.2.1.pre1, I don't really care. > We should fix both of these problems > (it sounds like Dave is really close, and we have a patch for perl) I'd have no objection to reverting to preN, and fixing the perl problem. I'm not so sure that my re-write of snmpnetstat would be appropriate for 5.2.2. Remember that this is basically a bug-fix release - the user assumption will be that is a drop-in replacement for previous 5.2.x versions. That's not true of the new snmpnetstat utility. Because I'm now using the standard 'snmp_parse_args' routine, several of the previous command-line options are no longer available (or do something different). I don't particularly like breaking backward compatability like this, but it does have the advantage of emphasising that this is a "new" (legal) utility, replacing the previous (non-legal) one, as well as dramatically improving the functionality of the thing. Changing (and possibly breaking) something as part of a new major-release seems reasonable. Not ideal, but understandable. Changing/Breaking it as part of a bug-fix release is much less justifiable, IMO. Hence my vote ranking earlier today (and the position of my "veto" vote). If we simply drop this tool from the 5.2.x line, then anyone with an existing 5.2.1 installation can continue using the previous version, with exactly the same behaviour as before. If we include the new re-write, then installing it will break any existing usage. It's not ideal - but I don't think there is a "good" option open to us. This feels to be the least-worst option, IMO. Dave ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ Net-snmp-coders mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/net-snmp-coders
