> > Hi, > > I wonder if i have to wait for the next stable version or use > the last cvs. I've download the last cvs of clamav and i'm > reading the changelog and found very interesting things > there. Is the current CVS is stable for an use in production > environment ? Is the next stable will done quicly ? > > Regards
Cedric, Stable is clearly dated not only in functionality but also in bug fixes (see SCO.A in nested mime formats). There are many new features in clamav-cvs that aren't in clamav-stable (ScanMail, SaveStreamToDisk come to mind), not to mention new methods of freshclam (the entire commandline switches have been changed to a freshclam.conf file now)... As well as the database format and database retrieval method have changed from stable to cvs versions. As for stability... Well... I do admit there are some stability issues with clamd-cvs (at least on FreeBSD), but I think the newer bug fixes along with the additional feature sets are worth the price... Plus the stability problems I have experienced are easily solved by placing clamd under supervise (DJB http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html - still the coolest domain name I have seen to date...) I think this brings up a good point for the maintainers of this fantastic project (never hurts to flatter). I believe an update to the stable is needed. Just this morning I had a friend of mine that I convinced to install clamav... He used stable... Because it was for a production environment... He came to me later this morning complaining that while clamav was easy to install and setup, he wasn't catching all the SCO.A viruses... I explained to him about the newer version of CVS fixes that exact problem... If I hadn't been on this list, I wouldn't have had the answer to his dilemma, and possibly tarnished this projects reputation in that individual's eyes... Now while the SCO.A problem will become a moot point in about 12 days, I think it illustrates a clear (albeit unique) problem with the divergence between the stable product and the cvs product. Sorry for somewhat hijacking your thread Cedric... It just started me down a thought process that I wanted to explore a little bit... To answer your question... Go with CVS... The good out weighs the bad. Tom Walsh Network Administrator http://www.ala.net/ SCO.A count for yesterday: 29,456 filtered messages. SCO.A peak one day total: 36,089 filtered messages (January 30th, 2004). ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ Clamav-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clamav-users
