Re: Fw: [time-nuts] Need Time Help

2016-10-05 Thread Hal Murray
g...@rellim.com said: > Looks like NTPsec really need SNTP to support Windows clients, and the > accuracy needs are minimal. SNTP and real NTP use the same packet formats so we can already support Windows clients. -- These are my opinions. I hate spam. ___

Re: Forward-planning towards release 1.0

2016-10-05 Thread Hal Murray
e...@thyrsus.com said: >> How are you going to test MS-SNTP? >> The old code, called out to a MS server to sign the response. That >> tied up the server. The people who needed it were running low >> volume so they were OK with that. > That's an issue I was not aware of, and makes me want to dro

Re: Forward-planning towards release 1.0

2016-10-05 Thread Hal Murray
>> What is the status of your simple setup doc? > Ready to ship. Your review and corrections were the last polishing step I > thought it needed. I thought we were waiting for the pool/restrict bug to get fixed. Has it been updated to use the pool? What's the URL? -- These are my opinions.

Re: KERNEL_PLL

2016-10-05 Thread Hal Murray
e...@thyrsus.com said: >> It might be useful to make sure that any workaround for >> OS X is general enough to handle another case. > It will be. We just fall back to the old BSD adjtime(2) call, which > everybody (even OS X) has. Thanks. That explains why/how it works and why the results are s

Re: TESTFRAME is dead. This accelerates us some.

2016-10-05 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Hal Murray : > > e...@thyrsus.com said: > >> As I understand things, the recent problem for TESTFRAME was the overlap > >> between adjtimex and ntp_adjtime. > > Not quite. It's the fact that with KERNEL_PLL enabled, the capture files > > will have an event in the stream that won't replay properl

Re: KERNEL_PLL

2016-10-05 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Mark, there's a "what platforms do we care about?" question here. Hal Murray : > > I think I see the confusion. > > My version of "remove" was remove the #ifdef and leave the code. (and > cleanup any #else...) No, I got that. The problem is, then we don't build on systems without sys/timex.h

Re: TESTFRAME is dead. This accelerates us some.

2016-10-05 Thread Hal Murray
e...@thyrsus.com said: >> As I understand things, the recent problem for TESTFRAME was the overlap >> between adjtimex and ntp_adjtime. > Not quite. It's the fact that with KERNEL_PLL enabled, the capture files > will have an event in the stream that won't replay properly on a > non-KERNEL_PLL s

KERNEL_PLL

2016-10-05 Thread Hal Murray
I think I see the confusion. My version of "remove" was remove the #ifdef and leave the code. (and cleanup any #else...) KERNEL_PLL is an alias for HAVE_SYS_TIMEX_H sys/timex.h is where ntp_adjtime and ntp_gettime come from Do we currently run on any systems without ntp_adjtime from sys/timex

Re: Forward-planning towards release 1.0

2016-10-05 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Hal Murray : > > g...@rellim.com said: > >> I'd vote for getting rid of KERNEL_PLL. > > Me too, but the alternative has to not suck. The last test remove was a > > terrible failure. > > What "test remove" was that? I implemented a --disable-kernel-pll option so Gary could test with KERNEL_PLL

Re: TESTFRAME is dead. This accelerates us some.

2016-10-05 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Mark: Heads up! Is it worth giving up Mac OS X for another shot at TESTFRAME? Sadly, even that only gives us poor odds... Hal Murray : > I hope you are putting it on the back burner rather than totally giving up. > > As I understand things, the recent problem for TESTFRAME was the overlap > bet

Re: Forward-planning towards release 1.0

2016-10-05 Thread Gary E. Miller
Yo Hal! On Wed, 05 Oct 2016 11:55:36 -0700 Hal Murray wrote: > g...@rellim.com said: > >> I'd vote for getting rid of KERNEL_PLL. > > Me too, but the alternative has to not suck. The last test remove > > was a terrible failure. > > What "test remove" was that? Eric added --disable-kernel

Fw: [time-nuts] Need Time Help

2016-10-05 Thread Gary E. Miller
Yo All! There has been an interesting discussion of late on time-nuts about how bad Windows timekeeping is. This one snippet is very relavant to current NTPsec plans: From: Tim Shoppa > I agree that the built in Microsoft tools are SNTP only and will not > work at the 15ms level. Looks like N

Re: Forward-planning towards release 1.0

2016-10-05 Thread Hal Murray
g...@rellim.com said: >> I'd vote for getting rid of KERNEL_PLL. > Me too, but the alternative has to not suck. The last test remove was a > terrible failure. What "test remove" was that? -- These are my opinions. I hate spam. ___ devel mailing

Re: Forward-planning towards release 1.0

2016-10-05 Thread Gary E. Miller
Yo Hal! On Wed, 05 Oct 2016 02:20:58 -0700 Hal Murray wrote: I'd vote for getting rid of KERNEL_PLL. Me too, but the alternative has to not suck. The last test remove was a terrible failure. RGDS GARY --- Gary E. Miller R

Re: Forward-planning towards release 1.0

2016-10-05 Thread John Bell
How timely and apropos! http://xkcd.com/1742/ - JDB > On October 5, 2016 at 2:33 AM Mark Atwood wrote: > > > we need to be packaged for debian, rasbian, ubuntu, gentoo, redhat, and > suse for 1.0 and be working towards getting into their distribution system > (apt, yum, etc) > > On Wed,

Re: Forward-planning towards release 1.0

2016-10-05 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Hal Murray : > I have no strong opinion about red vs green vs blue. I don't either. I guess in general I lean towards waiting a little longer and having a more impressive feature list. But I laid out scenarios for nearer-term releases because there might be PR or fundraising reasons to do that.

Re: Forward-planning towards release 1.0

2016-10-05 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Mark Atwood : > I want to have a conversation with our new funding sources about their > expectations, as i ponder Case Nightmare Red/Green/Blue Roger. Just for the record, I'm *not* expecting the 1.0 release to materialize legions of ravening Great Old Ones. -- http://www.catb.o

Re: Forward-planning towards release 1.0

2016-10-05 Thread Hal Murray
I have no strong opinion about red vs green vs blue. I think it would make more sense to have a high level description of what you want for a release. If you had that, I think it would be easy to pick a color. There are probably other areas that are just as important. Are you planning to fix

Re: Forward-planning towards release 1.0

2016-10-05 Thread Mark Atwood
I want to have a conversation with our new funding sources about their expectations, as i ponder Case Nightmare Red/Green/Blue On Wed, Oct 5, 2016, 10:08 AM Eric S. Raymond wrote: > Mark Atwood : > > we need to be packaged for debian, rasbian, ubuntu, gentoo, redhat, and > > suse for 1.0 and be

Re: Forward-planning towards release 1.0

2016-10-05 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Mark Atwood : > we need to be packaged for debian, rasbian, ubuntu, gentoo, redhat, and > suse for 1.0 and be working towards getting into their distribution system > (apt, yum, etc) Yes, we do. That doesn't imply a choice among Cases Red/Green/Blue, though. Do you have an opinion or judgment ab