Re: [squid-users] Squid 3.4.5 is available

I agree with Martin.

Squid is very widely used software and this move may break lots of
things for many administrators.

autoconf, automake, gcc may depend on other softwares and so even those
other softwares may also require update. Updating those softwares may
also break other softwares which depend on older versions.

So its going to be huge task for administrator.

I am also surprised that this change (a major one in my opinion) was
made in minor-minor release.

As Martin suggested may be this change should be pushed to Squid 4.x
major version.

So please consider the request.

Thanks and regards,

Amm.

On 05/05/2014 07:39 PM, Martin Sperl wrote:
> Hi Amos!
> ...

> So I wonder if it is really a wise move to potentially cut off
> people from security patches because they can no longer
> compile squid on the system they want to use it on just
> due to the build-tool dependencies.
>
> Is there maybe a plan not to change build-tool versions
> within a minor version (3.4, 3.5, ...) to somewhat avoid
> such issues?
>
> Thanks,
> Martin
Received on Mon May 05 2014 - 16:07:36 MDT