On Jan 23, 2013, at 16:23 , Steve Simmons <s...@umich.edu> wrote:

> 
> On Dec 31, 2012, at 3:25 PM, Russ Allbery <r...@stanford.edu> wrote:
> 
>> Stephan Wiesand <stephan.wies...@desy.de> writes:
>> 
>>> I agree. Reducing the number of optional features is good, but such a
>>> change shouldn't happen in the stable release series - unless there are
>>> no doubts that it will just work for everyone, and it doesn't introduce
>>> any compatibility issues. Turning on supergroups by default is very
>>> unlikely to happen on 1.6.x from my point of view.
>> 
>> Definitely agreed.  This is the sort of thing that should be done for a
>> major release.
> 
> We use and love supergroups here, but I agree - if the default were to have 
> changed, it should have been at the 1.6 release. I know it's a bit early to 
> talk about 1.8, but if anybody is developing a feature release list, 
> supergroups ought to be on it.
> 
> For what it's worth, our 1.4.X pts servers have run with significant use of 
> supergroups for years without crashing. So at least on Linux, the code seems 
> pretty stable.

Were they amd64?

-- 
Stephan Wiesand
DESY - DV -
Platanenallee 6
15732 Zeuthen, Germany

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