Re: squid-2.5 and coss

On Thu, Aug 14, 2003, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:

> OK for me. COSS is an experimental feature and not under code freeze
> even for Squid-2.5. Just remember to update the patches page after
> commit.

I'll do that once I've finished my rebuild code.

> If you need to touch any files outside of src/fs/coss/ then stricter
> rules apply.

I won't be. Pwomise.

> But my back of the head says why is this development not done in
> Squid-3? We need to start moving development to Squid-3 soon or
> Squid-3.0 will never receive any good amount of testing.

Because I want to deploy this as an easily reversable change on a
university cache or two.

> If there is customers involved who require Squid-2.5 then sure, 2.5 it
> is. If not I see no reason why making anything in 2.5 beyond fixing
> bugs to non-experimental features.

Well, theoretically, I should be able to easily forwardport my COSS changes
to 3.0 once I know it works. Believe me, once its running I'm going to be
looking to move to 3.0. kqueue and epoll are my next thing to sell. :)

adrian
Received on Wed Aug 13 2003 - 23:45:15 MDT