On 12/5/21 7:00 AM, Amos Jeffries wrote: > On 5/12/21 22:44, Francesco Chemolli wrote: >> The rationale is that we should focus our attention as a project where >> the majority of our userbase is, where users mean "people who build >> and run squid".
> I do not accept that a few hacks for old OS are causing pain to core > developers simply by bitrotting in untouched code. Squid code that should be removed (from any reasonable person point of view) may cause significant pain. I (and, I bet, others) have wasted a lot of time dealing with such code. Old OSes and platforms are not be the _biggest_ contributor here, but they are a contributor, and I hope that this thread will result in a scheme that is applicable to a much wider set of code snippets than those OS hacks alone. > Removing things because the majority of users are not using it would > mean we become a Linux-only project and thus actively push people out of > the community unnecessarily. There are active benefits gained in the > form of better code, bug detection, and community inclusiveness from > maintaining portable code. Nobody questions the real benefits of supporting non-Linux platforms AFAICT. The questions usually revolve around the benefits of a given OS-specific code snippet -- do they outweigh the drawbacks associated with it? It is impossible to correctly answer such questions in general, especially in the context of a starving Project. We may have to paint with a much broader pragmatic brush to arrive at imperfect but reusable/generic solutions that we can afford. > IMO specific machine architectures are not much concern to "us". The > toolchains and vendors take care of that part so long as we provide > half-decent code. I would go one step further and claim that any OS-specific Squid code that exists to accomodate OS Foo idiosyncrasies is the responsibility of the folks working on OS Foo-based distributions. It should not be the responsibility of the Squid project. Ideally, we should not have such code in Squid. This is what distro patches/adjustments are for. Alex. _______________________________________________ squid-dev mailing list squid-dev@lists.squid-cache.org http://lists.squid-cache.org/listinfo/squid-dev
