On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 10:02 AM, Robert Story <rst...@freesnmp.com> wrote: > On Wed, 6 Jul 2011 15:20:52 -0700 Garrett wrote: > GC> The OS-dependent code is messy and my personal feeling is > GC> that it should be properly refactored to avoid , and antiquated OS > GC> support should be removed (FreeBSD 5.x has been dead for some time for > GC> instance, and FreeBSD 6.x is no longer supported, etc), but these are > GC> just some other thoughts I had w.r.t. net-snmp and OS support. > > Our esteemed leader takes a fairly hard-line stance on backwards > compatibility, so it's unlikely that anything will be dropped.
But if you guys can't test obsolete OSes, then what's the value of backwards compatibility -- especially when OS distributions like FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD openly deprecate versions of their OS within a few years of their initial release? > We've really just got one person that does occasional cleanup of the BSD side, > so we'd be more than glad to get more help in that arena. More than happy to help at long as I can :). > What release are you upgrading to? 5.7, I hope... 5.7. For now I'm going to implement quick hacks to get the port upgraded to 5.7, push back minimal patches to the FreeBSD maintainer to get things building in the project for all supported versions (esp with 9.0-RELEASE feature freeze around the corner), then work on cleaning stuff up / fixing things with a handful of other interested parties that have contacted me off-list. All that and I need to implement some later (RFC-4xxx) ipv6 MIB-related functionality by October. Fun times.. Thanks! -Garrett ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 _______________________________________________ Net-snmp-coders mailing list Net-snmp-coders@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/net-snmp-coders
