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Date:      Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:55:39 +0100
From:      RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com>
To:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: squidguard and squid3
Message-ID:  <20100426125539.5c797084@gumby.homeunix.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100426085054.GA20779@megatron.madpilot.net>
References:  <8D801F2C-AE12-455D-ADFF-C065F8B3E59F@goldmark.org> <20100426085054.GA20779@megatron.madpilot.net>

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On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 10:50:54 +0200
Guido Falsi <mad@madpilot.net> wrote:


> For the list: Is there some reason why the default squid port is still
> version 2.7? What is the consensus on this?

Squid 3.0 was a rewrite of squid in C++ with a reduced feature set.
I think the current situation is that there are still features in 2.x
that aren't in 3.x and vice versa.

2.7 has better performance, so I think it's still a sensible default. 


> Also, should the port provide some switch to choose on which squid
> version to depend 

Probably



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