RE: [squid-users] Squid Future (was Re: [squid-users] Squid-2, Squid-3, roadmap)

The only reason I haven't upgraded beyond the current stable 2.6 code is that some third part companies (like Secure Computing, who we use as a Squid plugin) only supports certain versions of squid. I haven't even played with 3.0 because of this. I think squid hands down is an amazing proxy software and I will continue to keep using it going forward. We use are proxies as content filtering devices as well...so need the support of both.

Your comments about apache are dead on...

- Nick

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Collins [mailto:robertc@robertcollins.net]
Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2008 9:25 PM
To: Adrian Chadd
Cc: squid-users@squid-cache.org
Subject: Re: [squid-users] Squid Future (was Re: [squid-users] Squid-2, Squid-3, roadmap)

On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 10:18 +0900, Adrian Chadd wrote:

> At the end of the day, I'd rather see something that an increasing
> number of people on the Internet will use and - I won't lie here -
> whatever creates a self sustaining project, both from community and financial perspectives.

I agree with this. FWIW I see squid 2 and 3 as very similar to apache 1.x and 2.x - apache 2 took a _long_ time to be considered an 'upgrade'
by _all_ users, and squid3 has been in the same boat.

I don't think that the amount of work to make squid3 better for all users is insurmountable by the community, and I think that continuing the polish on squid3 is the best way forward. YMMV of course :).

-Rob

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