Well, the point is that if it works, don't break it. Yes, you can totally avoid upgrades, depending on your environment. Sometimes you have no choice and continue to run old versions of software or firmware or ... Get over it. :)
If you want to continue debating system administration issues, there are several lists to do so (go to sage or lopsa, for example). The goal for this thread is to get a sense of how many people are still running SA on Perl 5.6 and therefore how disruptive would it be to the user base to require a newer version of Perl for newer versions of SA. On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Yet Another Ninja<sa-l...@alexb.ch> wrote: > On 6/25/2009 11:27 PM, John Rudd wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 10:09, Chris Hoogendyk<hoogen...@bio.umass.edu> >> wrote: >>> Gone are the days when you totally avoided upgrades because of the time, >>> hassle and risk involved. >> >> Time and hassle, maybe. Risk, no. Risk is not a binary, it's a >> balancing act. Live updates don't remove risk, they simply alter the >> risk balance. There will always be applications and environments >> where risk is high enough that will cause you to wait. > can we get back to Spamassassin and a sane update cycle context? .-)
