Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn wrote: > > Let me restate my use case now that you've persuaded me that > immutable dirs in backupdb is okay. It's not that new features have > to be disabled by default, it's that: > > A user wants to know if she can upgrade to the new release of Tahoe- > LAFS, briefly glance at the NEWS.txt file, and continue to > interoperate with her old-version-using friends, without > significantly altering her workflow.
As a data point in favor of Zooko's argument, I noticed that the GPG folks are discussing a similar issue. They enabled support for DSA2 (i.e. DSA with >1024bit keys) over three years ago, but are just now considering whether to make --enable-dsa2 the default (to start generating these new keys). http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-devel/2009-November/025433.html cheers, -Brian _______________________________________________ tahoe-dev mailing list [email protected] http://allmydata.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev
