Just out of interest, option 3) does not entirely dismiss using the pf2-*
chain of kernel options for developing using the new pf tree; sure it
would be alot of work but just 'how much' would be required; Our own fork
after all means that everything is created from scratch and as its 'vastly
different' from the OpenBSD version surely that will also require a vast
amount of time.
I should probably point that doing both at the same time would by sane
observation mean two projects requiring a vast amount of time; but if
enough people support the 'pf2' chain then in conjunction with the fact
that we should be able to borrow some of the code from OpenBSD, maybe it
would be worth the sacrifice.
Time will tell which one becomes the more popular.
On Tue, 20 Nov 2012 03:02:40 -0000, Chris Buechler <cbuech...@gmail.com>
wrote:
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 8:23 PM, Paul Webster
<paul.g.webs...@googlemail.com> wrote:
Good day all,
I am aware this is a much discussed subject since the upgrade of PF, I
believe the final decision was that to many users are used to the old
style pf and an upgrade to the new syntax would cause to much confusion.
There was a recent debate on ##freebsd about this issue and I was
inclined
to mail in and get your opinions; basically it boiled down to the
majority
of users wanting either:
1) To move to the newer pf and just add to releases notes what had
happened,
and
2) my own personal opinion: creating 'pf2-*' as a kernel option tree,
basically using the newer pf syntax and allowing users to choose.
The line in the sand has been drawn with the SMP-friendly PF now in
HEAD. The reality is seeming to be option 3) FreeBSD pf is drastically
different and will be a fork from this point, as those SMP changes
make future merges impossible without redoing a whole lot of work.
There was some discussion and regrets here that it wasn't brought up
to the most recent pf before doing all that work, but it's done and
committed at this point. There was a good deal of discussion here at
that time, check this list's archive from earlier this year.
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