[Spread-users] patch or get latest from cvs?

[Jonathan Stanton]

CVS is bugfixes and one small enhancement. It will be packaged up into a 
new 3.17.2 release soon -- just waiting on two more bugs to be fixed. 

Both versions should be stable -- 3.17.1 has the known bugs we have fixed, 
but except for those special cases is quite good. Here is the current list 
of fixes from the CVS Readme.txt file.


Current Fixes:
--------------
*) Fix daemon quit when multiple interfaces are configured as "D" daemon 
interfaces in the spread.conf file. Bug reported by Orit Wasserman.
*) Updated url for Java 'ant' build system. Patch by Daniel Rall.
*) Fix group_id bug that causes incorrect vs_sets. Patch by Ryan Caudy.
*) Fix spread.conf parser so it validates the machine names in segments
   and forces them to be less then MAX_PROC_NAME. Patch by Mikhail 
Terekhov.
*) Minor fix to Mac OS X compilation so library softlinks do not fail the 
   second time make is run.
*) Alarm() changes to support priority levels on each Alarm() call. 
*) Fix crash by improving packet accounting when a client connected to a 
   singleton daemon sends a large broadcast. Reported by David Shaw.
*) Fix bus errors on Sparc & Alpha for message buffer integer assignment. 
   Reported by Greg Shebert and Mikhail Terekhov. 
*) Verify daemon names in spread.conf are unique. If non-unique names are
   provided in spread.conf, configuration will be rejected and daemon will 
   not start. Suggested by Tim Peters. 


Cheers,

Jonathan


On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 06:31:57PM -0500, Andy Stone wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just ran into the multihome bug that was mentionned on the list in 
> July (found it by searching the archives).  So I need to decide to patch 
> my 3.17.1, or to upgrade to the latest in cvs. 
> 
> Maybe some of the longtime spread users and developers can help me decide...
> 
> What kind of activity is going on in the tree?  Is it all bug fixes, or 
> are there new features being put in?  How stable is the latest?  About 
> how many bug fixes have gone in?
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Andy Stone
> 
> stone at camiant.com
> 
> 
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Jonathan R. Stanton         jonathan at cs.jhu.edu
Dept. of Computer Science   
Johns Hopkins University    
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