Re: proclamation of intent

[Paul Traina <pst@juniper.net>]

How about if you drop a branch tag for gnats 3.x in now (in case folks want
to do later 3.x releases, and commit a snapshot into the head as 4.0-alpha).
This will give Rick and Ken a chance to change their front-ends to work with
4.0's commands, and we'll just screw the old network protocol.

On Mon, Aug 23, 1999 at 10:38:14AM -0700, Bob Manson wrote:
> In message < Pine.GSO.4.10.9908231115550.20253-100000@sys4 >, Rick Macdonald writ
> es:
> >On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Bob Manson wrote:
> >
> >What does everybody think about numbering the next release 3.201, or
> >3.300 or 4.0?
> 
> I was shooting for 4.0 myself, since I think it's a big enough change
> to merit it.  Maybe "4.0-this-is-guaranteed-to-corrupt-your-PRMS-database"
> would be a better name ;-)
> 
> It's currently not network-protocol-backwards-compatible.  I've
> removed the myriad of "QXXX" commands and replaced them all with 
> "QUER queryformatname".  I could put back the old ones, I suppose. (On
> the other hand if I don't fix this, that means I can rip out all those
> screwy LXXX commands, the field designation commands, et al.)
> 
> In other news, I've implemented the configuration file, and the format
> looks almost exactly like what we came up with. Works too, tho I
> haven't removed the old field initialization stuff yet (it's in a new 
> source file scheduled for demolition).
> 
> Maybe I should work on getting a preliminary release out instead of
> finishing up what I originally started, namely the ability to add
> fields ;-) I have yet to add the network protocol for dumping out the
> field info (and the associated client options), there are still a fair
> number of places that know how many fields there are, and the mapping
> between internal field names and actual fields is not done (it still
> essentially derefs an array, bad juju).
> 
> If anyone really wants to play with this, I'll put it up.  Check it
> in? Something.  I say check it into CVS and let Patty sort it out.
> Other opinions?
> 
> >I wish I had a beer for every time I've answered mail from people trying
> >to build 3.2!
> 
> I wish I had a beer for every line of crap code I've deleted.  I'd be
> drunk for a couple of months, easy. ;-)
> 						Bob