On 1/29/2015 10:20 AM, Steve Simmons wrote: > On Jan 26, 2015, at 11:16 AM, Dave Botsch <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I would argue we shouldn't be shipping known broken software that will >> negatively impact the user experience. So, I'd like to propose removing >> the Prefs Pane gui from future packages/builds of OS X. > > I'm for it.
The OSX client has a couple of huge holes in it at the moment: 1. The packaging is no longer current for Xcode that supports Mavericks or Yosemite. 2. Parts of the pref pane functionality no longer work because of changes in Mavericks and Yosemite. 3. There is no support for Bulk Status RPCs which cause the OSX client (especially when used through Finder) to be extremely slow when evaluating directories with large numbers of entries over high latency links. This same lack of support for Bulk Status RPCs also triggers the file server throttling of clients when many of the objects in the directory are unreadable by the user. 4. There is no support for PAGs. 5. Code signing for the installer, the userland binaries and the kernel extension are necessary for improved firewall access and installation behavior. Of these, the easiest to address is fixing the Preference Pane. I will suggest that a discussion on whether or not to remove functionality should be held on openafs-info and not openafs-devel because end users are less likely to read the openafs-devel list. Jeffrey Altman
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