Re: Way forward with BIND 8

At 3:01 AM -0700 2003/06/06, Doug Barton wrote:

>  Regardless of whether I agree with the points you make here or not, the
>  FreeBSD development model requires that what we import in -current, for
>  the most part, be what we plan to eventually MFC. That factor alone
>  eliminates the possibility of importing BIND 9 at this time.

	I'm sorry, plenty of things have been done in -CURRENT that could 
not possibly be MFC'ed to -STABLE.  Yes, once the leap to the next 
version is done and the particular RELENG tree that used to be 
-CURRENT becomes the new -STABLE, things would migrate down.

	Are you saying that the new SMP code could not have been done, 
because it could not be MFC'ed to -STABLE?

	I'm sorry, this is a completely false argument.

>>  	There's no sense re-hashing all these issues in e-mail
>
>  .... and yet you felt the need to do so.

	No, I didn't.  If I had, I would have cut-n-pasted all those 
specific points into my e-mail message.  As it was, I mentioned one 
or two points on either side, and referred people to the rest.

>  Nothing I've had to say on this issue should be (or I think reasonably can
>  be) interpreted as a flame. I've simply stated the reasons I think that
>  BIND 9 isn't suitable for one particular purpose.

	In which case, I would submit that you should be more involved in 
the development of BIND, so that (in your mind) it can become 
suitable for this purpose.  Are you a member of the BIND Forum (see 
<http://www.isc.org/BINDForum/>)?  Are you on the bind-workers 
mailing list?

	IMO, if you want to claim that BIND 9 isn't suitable for 
production use, then I believe you should be prepared to help change 
that situation.

-- 
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles_at_skynet.be>

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
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