On Nov 15, 2007 1:22 PM, David F. Skoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ian Eiloart wrote:
>
> > Oh, but wait. What's going on here? You upgrade ClamAV and your
> > configuration changes? That shouldn't happen at all. Are you using an
> > installer tool that overwrites your deployed configuration? Surely not!
>
> When we upgraded ClamAV, our configuration file stayed the same, BUT
> we were treated to slow and unwanted new behaviour that caused a flurry
> of support calls and significant amounts of our support time to figure
> out what the h*ll was happening.
>
> We were not impressed with the decision taken by the Clam developers.
> As a general principle of least surprise, new and experimental
> behaviour should need to be enabled explicitly and not "snuck in" on
> unsuspecting users.

Aren't these features only ever enabled if compiled with --experimental?

-- 
/peter
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