From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 7 22:03:55 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4965C16A4CE; Mon, 7 Jun 2004 22:03:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp2.server.rpi.edu (smtp2.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCF1343D45; Mon, 7 Jun 2004 22:03:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp2.server.rpi.edu (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i57M3rIX010302; Mon, 7 Jun 2004 18:03:53 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <40C4E1C4.9080703@dougbarton.net> References: <200406072118.i57LI9rc030212@repoman.freebsd.org> <40C4E1C4.9080703@dougbarton.net> Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 18:03:52 -0400 To: Doug Barton , Garance A Drosehn From: Garance A Drosihn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . canit . ca) cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/newsyslog newsyslog.c X-BeenThere: cvs-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the entire tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 22:03:55 -0000 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