On Mon, 1 Dec 2014, Noel Butler wrote:
On 01/12/2014 04:52, John Hardin wrote:
On Sun, 30 Nov 2014, Reindl Harald wrote:
Am 30.11.2014 um 05:39 schrieb John Hardin: On Sun, 30 Nov 2014, Reindl Harald
wrote: if that rule can't work in most environments and not made conditionally
it has to be dropped at all because it has more drawbacks than benefits But
this effectively means we cannot add new features to SA conditionals because
they might do this to older installs
which new features?
The perl version check in a conditional.
Trunk SA supports doing that now. But if actually *using* that feature,
even once it's officially released, results in unacceptable warnings in
older SA installs, then at what point can the new feature *actually be
used*?
You do that with new x.MAJOR.0 release, where you can mandate minimum
system requirements, currently this stunt has caused far more harm than
what its currently worth and should be rolled back.
It has been. It's waiting for the normal masscheck process to generate a
new rules update.
You've been around a long long time John, so I know your not going to
suggest people with production servers run a version from trunk just to
satisfy a small few.
I'm not, and wasn't. I underestimated the impact of the warning, I didn't
realize it would be emitted in cron logs the way it was. I was just
looking at the SA log.
Now that we do have a conditional test that does successfully bypass the
check of the perl_version pseudo-variable, then we can use this check
without causing earlier SA releases heartburn. But not until that
capability is officially released.
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