Hi Adrian,
So does that mean that there will be no Squid-2.6.19?
Will Squid-2.6.STABLE19 be Squid-2.7.STABLE1 ?
Thanking you...
Adrian Chadd wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 12, 2008, Marcus Kool wrote:
>
>> I tried the FAQ and Squid website for some more info but I found none.
>> The RoadMap2 and RoadMap3 are a bit vague to draw any conclusions.
>
> Thats because we're developers, not documentation authors. :)
>
>> Can you be more elaborate ? What are the major differences between
>> 3.x and 2.7 ?
>
> 3.x: has some internal code restructuring, is a C/C++ hybrid, includes
> integrated ICAP support; Amos has ipv6 support included in 3.HEAD.
>
> 2.x: functional cyclic filesystem (COSS), some of my recent work
> (store URL rewriting to allow CDN type content to be cached with
> appropriate administrator intervention; my logging helper framework
> to make logging lightweight again and allow other logging destinations
> to be easily written, like UDP, MySQL, etc), performance improvements,
> HTTP/1.1 compliance improvements.
>
> I've promised the squid-3 developers that I wouldn't make my Squid-3
> complaints public anymore. Suffice to say, I don't really agree with the
> direction or the implementation of Squid-3 and I got sick of waiting.
>
> I'm going to focus my attentions to modifying the Squid-2 codebase to be
> what I think it should've looked like before we tried the "great C++
> experiment". That includes how features are tested and developed, how
> often minor releases are, well, released, and concentrating on code
> restructuring and improvements.
>
> If this becomes too confusing for users, and this may be the case, then
> I might have to spin it off as a new project. I'd rather not do this,
> but I'm not sure how to get it across that Squid-2 is and will be
> actively developed.
>
> If you follow the blog then you'll find articles from Amos and I talking
> about what we've been working on in Squid-2 and Squid-3. I'd like it if
> the other project participants chimed in too, but not everyone feels up
> to writing articles on what they're doing. :)
>
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> Adrian
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-- With best regards and good wishes, Yours sincerely, Tek Bahadur Limbu System Administrator (TAG/TDG Group) Jwl Systems Department Worldlink Communications Pvt. Ltd. Jawalakhel, Nepal http://www.wlink.com.np http://teklimbu.wordpress.comReceived on Sun Jan 13 2008 - 03:42:55 MST
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