Re: [Openvpn-devel] Protocol Change policy

2002-07-03 Thread Matthias Andree
On Tue, 02 Jul 2002, James Yonan wrote: > Here are some answers that come to mind: > > (1) Accumulate such patches and merge them all at once in a future release > such as 1.3.0 or 2.0.0, while warning users that this release will not be > backward compatible. That's the way to go. Anything else

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Protocol Change policy

2002-07-03 Thread Sampo Nurmentaus
I agree, I think that allowing the usage of multiple, possibly old, protocols adds complexity and may couse some vulnerabilities. A cracker could force the daemon to use some old protocol with security holes fixed in later versions. Sampo > > I'd like to hear your opinions on how the OpenVPN

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Protocol Change policy

2002-07-03 Thread Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta
On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 11:16:14AM +0200, Jan Johansson wrote: > On Tue, 2002-07-02 at 20:34, James Yonan wrote: > > I'd like to hear your opinions on how the OpenVPN project should handle > > patches which break backward compatibility. > > Here are some answers that come to mind: > > > > (1) Acc

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Protocol Change policy

2002-07-03 Thread Jan Johansson
On Tue, 2002-07-02 at 20:34, James Yonan wrote: > I'd like to hear your opinions on how the OpenVPN project should handle > patches which break backward compatibility. > Here are some answers that come to mind: > > (1) Accumulate such patches and merge them all at once in a future release > such