David, While I agree, to some extent, with your concerns, I cannot help but wonder why you waited until now to raise this issue. The fact that ClamAV <=0.94 would stop working on April 15 was first announced six months ago, on October 6, 2009. Surely this question would have been better asked then, when you had more than six months to plan for the change, rather than now, when you have only 8 days.
My company had hundreds of appliances in the field running versions of ClamAV affected by this change. When we saw the announcement, we immediately started working on figuring out how we were going to get them updated by April 15, and we succeeded in doing so. I agree with you that ClamAV 0.94 was end-of-lifed too early. I, too, think it was unreasonable for the ClamAV developers to kill a software version that was released less than 2 years ago and obsoleted only a year ago. Nevertheless, if your company is currently facing an "emergency" because of this change, then you seem to have forced it upon yourselves by waiting this long to figure out how to address it. Jik -- Jonathan Kamens Operations Manager Advent Tamale RMS 201 South Street, Suite 300, Boston, MA 02111 Phone: +1 617 261 0264 ext. 133 | Mobile : +1 617 417 8989 | Fax: + 1 617 812 0330 jkam...@advent.com | www.advent.com _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-devel.html Please submit your patches to our Bugzilla: http://bugs.clamav.net
