On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:43:49 -0700
Claus Assmann <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 18, 2010, Gregory Edigarov wrote:
>
> > Meta1, which is viewed by some as a "sendmail made right" is still
> > in very deep pre-alpha state... what a pity.
>
> Despite being called "pre-alpha" MeTA1 runs without problems
> for years at various sites. It's in pre-alpha to make my
> life easier: I can make changes without offering backward
> compatibility. While I try to avoid that, it reduces my
> workload if those changes are deemed necessary (however, I
> provided scripts/instructions for upgrading each time this
> happened).
>
> Alternatively, I could just go through the release process to make
> MeTA1-1.0.0 available and then start MeTA1-2.0.PreAlpha0, but I'm
> not sure whether that's the right thing to do.
>
> Do quote the MeTA1 docs:
>
> PreAlpha: This means the software is not feature complete and hence
> might be missing some functionality that is considered important
> by different users. Additionally, there might be no compatibility
> in data structures stored on disk between different pre-alpha
> versions, e.g., when upgrading from PreAlpha16 to PreAlpha17 the
> main queue format may have changed without checks in the software
> for this. Hence old queues must be drained before upgrading.
> Moreover, the protocols used for communication between MeTA1 modules
> may have changed without providing backward compatibility, therefore
> modules from different releases must not be used together. Such
> incompatibilities are usually stated in the list of changes.
Yeah, I got the point, thank you.
--
With best regards,
Gregory Edigarov
