Hello, On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 6:42 PM, Gert Doering <g...@greenie.muc.de> wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 06:37:04PM +0100, Emmanuel Deloget wrote: >> I guess the answer to the riddle is: "how long will the 2.4 branch >> live?". v2.3 shipped in May 2013. If we assume that v2.4 will be the >> stable branch for two more years (I cannot find any roadmap, so this >> is pure speculation) then it might make sense for 2.5 to at least >> remove support for OpenSSL v0.9.8 (it would have been EoL'd for 3 >> years by then). > > We have *plans* to release 2.5 faster than "it takes another 3 years", > but we said so when planning 2.4 as well.
That's good to know :) Is there any roadmap available to the general public? > Since David pointed out already that RHEL5 is going to be EOLed soon, > I do not thing 0.9.8 is an important target anymore. Depending on the > amount of #ifdef etc., it might make sense to drop 0.9.8 support in > 2.4, but only add 1.1 support to master/2.5 - we're early in the 2.4 > cycle, which allows "somewhat larger" changes, but 500+ insertions > sounds like a bit too intrusive. I'm not targetting 2.4 -- my work is done on the current master. Adding hundreds of lines to the current 2.4 for the purpose of supporting a library which is not yet present on the user systems does not make much sense :) BR, -- Emmanuel Deloget ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Openvpn-devel mailing list Openvpn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-devel
