On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 15:27 +0100, Thomas Anders wrote: > Dave Shield wrote: > > 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.
> Would this mean to omit snmpnetstat from V5-2-patches *forever*? That's open for debate, obviously - but I'd say yes. > I don't > particularly like the idea of locking existing snmpnetstat users > (and package vendors!) within the 5.2.x line to 5.2.1.2. But they wouldn't be locked in - they could upgrade to 5.2.2 (and beyond), while continuing to use the 5.2.1.2 version of snmpnetstat. Either binary, or sources. In fact, a simple "configure ; make ; make install" would probably leave the previous snmpnetstat binary untouched. (RPM-like packages might need a bit more attention, I agree) > Is there an easy way to port the rewrite to 5.2.x (and 5.1.x) > while maintaining the *original* snmpnetstat options? That's certainly possible - a "simple matter of programming". Basically chop out the call to "snmp_parse_args", and replace it with the equivalent code from the old code. That's purely SNMP-related stuff, so wouldn't be affected by the original BSD license. Note that I've made use of the new "netsnmp_query_*" routines, so that code would need to be backported too. The easiest way would probably be to extract these routines from the 5.3 library, and add them to the 5.2.x snmpnetstat code. 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
