Justin Clift wrote: > Only two things which have the potential to be worth waiting for, from > what I'm aware of. There may be others: > > - Find out from Sir Mordred if he wants to take a look at the CVS > version of code and audit in that for a bit, Just In Case he turns > up something that's serious and requires substantial re-work. > Although it means he wouldn't have a bunch of "I found this existing > exploit" type releases, we could instead offer him credit on the > press release along the lines of "This released has been audited for > security flaws in its code by Sir Mordred". Am pretty sure he'd > do a very thorough job for that, as it means he'd have an official > "product reputation" he'd need to stand by for it.
This is interesting. He would have a month to do it. > - Patches to the CVS tree which let us have a truly native windows > version. This is of huge significance and would *very* much improve > our growth and adoption by being in this release in comparison to > being in the release afterwards. Not in an airy fairy way, but > quite definitely and solidly. > > Of the two, Sir Mordred may or may not be willing, so that's kind of > iffy, whereas the Windows Native port which is in beta testing isn't > in too bad a state at all already. Have been running preliminary > multi-user AS3AP tests on it (with OSDB) and getting a significant > performance throughput increase in comparison to the cygwin version. OK, now I have to ask, where did this native Windows version come from? I don't know anything about it, except that Jan and SRA are both working on versions. The other issue is PITR, which I have been told today will not be ready for a September 1 beta but may be ready for an October 1 beta. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
