Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 18:03:52 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Doug Barton <DougB@dougbarton.net>, Garance A Drosehn <gad@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/newsyslog newsyslog.c Message-ID: <p06020445bcea94d482cd@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <40C4E1C4.9080703@dougbarton.net> References: <200406072118.i57LI9rc030212@repoman.freebsd.org> <40C4E1C4.9080703@dougbarton.net>
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At 2:44 PM -0700 6/7/04, Doug Barton wrote: >Garance A Drosehn wrote: > > > Log: > > Add an "oldorder" option, so that when the default changes > > to "neworder", people have a way to drop back to the previous > > logic. > >"Old" and "new" here are relative terms, are you sure they'll still >be meaningful 6 months from now? Personally I'd prefer different >names, but don't care enough about it to pursue the matter beyond >this bit of grousing. :) These debug options are meant to be short-term, undocumented features. These two are only going to exist for a short time, and are only provided because this is a major enough restructuring of the code that I wanted to make sure people had an immediate way of "backing the change out" if they suspected a problem with it. I only expect to tell people about this if they report a problem when they are using newsyslog. I expect to make "neworder" the default within a week (if I do not hear of any problems from a few people who are testing it for me). I expect to drop both options after 5.3-release, and will remove all the "oldorder" code at the same time. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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