On sön, 2008-06-08 at 00:11 +0200, Henrik Nordstrom wrote: > On lör, 2008-06-07 at 13:32 -0700, Linda W wrote: > > Is squid being renamed? > > No. > > > Or what the relation of cacheboy to the squid project? > > CacheBoy is a fork of the Squid project, where Adrian tries out some new > ideas of what the future should look like. > > > I'm also a bit perturbed, that 3.0, which has been around > > forever, is still in Beta, > > Squid-3.0 was released as the current STABLE release on May 20, 2008 and > is no longer in testing. Sorry, a silly copy-paste error crept in there. Dec 13, 2007 is the correct date for 3.0.STABLE1. May 20 was the most recent 3.0.STABLE6 bugfix release... > > while alot of work continues to > > go on in the 2.x line. > > Adrian still works on 2.x, and third-party contributions is still > accepted (if in reasonable shape). I also continue maintaining the 2.x > tree fixing important bugs. > > For some time the two versions will coexists, but the intentions is that > 3.x should fill the role over time. There is some features and > performance missing from 3.x to completely take over from 2.x, but also > a lot of unique functionality not found in 2.x. > > > I mean "usually" most work goes toward > > the new generation....with maybe 1 person handing bug fixes > > for 2.x...and usually most feature work goes into 3.x... > > It s the case for Squid as well. > > > Is cacheboy going to become a 3rd squid proxy server? Or > > why was it split off? > > Because Adrian is not happy with the direction Squid-3 is taking, and > also because he is more comfortable with C than C++, with large parts of > Squid-3 being somewhat alien to him where Squid-2 is very well known to > him. > > Regards > Henrik
