Version 1.1.1 has been released

Bjørn Mork bjorn at mork.no
Tue Mar 21 18:16:16 CET 2006


Stefan Winter <stefan.winter at restena.lu> writes:

> as I see, #335 didn't make it. Any particular reason or did it just get lost? 
> IIRC, adding it was considered okay?

I do of course not know why it was left out, but I noticed the
following discussion a few days ago:

aland: "If it doesn't change existing behavior, I'm OK with adding it in."

stefan.winter: "existing behaviour is unchanged."

So far, so good.  But then you went on describing that existing
behaviour in fact IS changed:

 "The speed-up is very marginal, but: as of yet, for every packet this
  if () condition is evaluated, and and in the vast majority of cases
  (whenever User-Name is present) it evals to true.  After taking
  these lines out, the if eval is saved (kinda being true always).
  Overall, you save one boolean evaluation per packet."

I understand that this change is what you want, but there MAY be
someone depending on the existing behaviour.  This change will then
surely break their current working configuration.  They can of course
fix it by reconfiguring the server, taking this change into
consideration, but that is NOT the way to do a stable release cycle.

All above IMHO, of course.


Bjørn




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