On Apr 19, 2010, at 9:00 AM, Simon Hobson wrote:
Jim Preston wrote:
Forcing an upgrade by flipping a kill switch was AN option, but it
wasn't the only one.
No one is arguing that there weren't other options. However, it was
their decision to make to move forward with incompatible signatures
to support new features. Code changes were put into 0.95.3 (and
maybe earlier in the 0.95 tree) which allows clamd to continue
running with the new signatures and just does not use them. That is
not the issue, the issue is pre 0.95 could not handle the new
signatures and everyone had 6 months do something about it.
Yes, we all know that something had to be done, but just two days
ago, the argument most definitely was that there was **NO** other
option - absolutely no other option and this was the **ONLY** way to
do it.
Now you at least are coming round to the acceptance that there were
other options. That has been part of people's objections - apart
from choosing the option they did, at least in these threads, the
argument has been that "there was **NO** other option", which quite
frankly was never accepted as true or reasonable.
Lessons to be learned on both sides I think.
--
Simon Hobson
No, Simon, if you read some of my earlier posts I stated it was their
decision to make and had taken measures to give users / admins 6
months to do something about. They apparently also allowed users /
admins to comment on their plan and when objections were not forth
coming, went ahead as planned. After that this thread diverged into
other tangents....
Jim
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