Imminent release of 2.2.5 and 3.0.3

[Phil Mayers]

On 17/04/2014 15:05, Alan DeKok wrote:

>    That works when they pay.  A good chunk of people don't.  Then, they
> complain *here* because their 6 year-old distro still has a 10 year-old
> version of FreeRADIUS.  And the "can't upgrade" because of "stability".

Sadly true, and I do find that odd. My leading theory is that e.g. 
wireless authentication is usually a task given to someone who doesn't 
really want to have to do it, and certainly doesn't want to learn 
anything about it - they consider it a fire & forget. So they're a bit 
lazy and unwilling to put the work in.

I do find it really very sad they're using open-source software and 
don't feel they can do:

./configure --prefix=/opt/fr-$version
make
make install

...as if that's some kind of massive deployment hassle when they're 
doing it on all of two f*ing servers! They get hung up on RPM/deb being 
the be-all and end-all, when "tar" does the job quite nicely at small 
scale. (We build RPMs but we've got the expertise).

I blame thing like ITIL and other process nonsense - those requirements 
are often put in by management to stop crazy employees doing crazy 
unmaintainble things and leaving, but show a fundamental 
misunderstanding of the issues and end up with "only vendor packages" as 
a solution :o(



>    The code is done now.  There aren't any long-term maintenance issues.
>   So I think it's fine.

Fair enough - as long as it's not causing you maintenance/build hassles.