On Fri, 01 Oct 2004 16:40:32 +0100 Dave wrote:
DS> > Ok, then since there is now a new table to fulfil your craving for a
DS> > 'correct' module ;-), what about reverting the old extTable to it's
DS> > original implementation?
DS> 
DS> As I recall (and this is going back a fair while now!),
DS> the thing that broke wasn't actually the MIB implementation
DS> code - it was the utility function for running a subcommand.
DS> 
DS> The original version was very tightly tied in to the expectations
DS> of the extensible table, and that's where the caching was done.
DS> Not in the extensible module itself.
DS> 
DS> I seem to remember that I was trying to make the subcommand handling
DS> more flexible (so I could use it somewhere else - probably the trap
DS> handler), so stripped out the caching element.   In order to revert
DS> to the previous behaviour, it would be necessary to insert equivalent
DS> (new) code into the extensible module var_ routine to handle the caching.

When I looked at the diffs, it looked to me like you wrote new code to exec
code, updated the extTable to use it, and then wrote a whole new module with
the new MIB. I'm not suggesting putting the old functionality in the new exec
code, but rather revert the extTable to use the old exec code, instead of your
new exec code. That shouldn't be much work at all.

DS> I'm afraid I don't have the time to address it.

Ok, but do you object to the principle? Revert the old table back to it's
original behaviour (maintaining backwards compatibility with pre-5.1
behaviour)?

Those who want the new features can move to the new tables in 5.2. And then for
5.3, we can probably turn off the old one by default, in favor of the new,
improved version.


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