[ntp:hackers] Re: ntp 4.1.2

David L. Mills mills at udel.edu
Fri Aug 15 19:31:28 PDT 2003


Harlan,

No. I'm just getting started.

The "new" 4.1.2 release version is dated 17 July 2003. When I saw that
date I sighed relief and assumed that version was somewhere near modern
times. I checked and found it had Autokey Versio 1 support dated 19
February 2002. A lot of water has flowed under the bridge since then.
This explains why I have been getting complaints about broken
documentation and public key cryptography. Yes, the documentation in
that version does go with the version and explains why I have been
getting strange typo reports about *.htm pages.

The dating of the release and development versions gave me some pause,
since the date of the former is later than the latter, and led to me
giving bad and confusing advice to several folks who contacted me
directly. I have asked, pleaded cajoled and sometimes been quite rude
about a modern release update. I just had to defend to the Navy why the
things I have been pitching them are not in an official release and I
had to tell them I have no control over the release process. There have
been several epoches in recent time when that could have been done with
generally good results, like just before Danny's recent I/O changes.
Those changes are to the very best good, more things kinda did work
before that adventure began.

Now, if Danny is close to fixing the last bug in the IPv6 code, that
becomes the new releae version, not a release candidate, a release
version. If that doesn't happen reasonably soon, I will do that myself
and we should start talking divorce from Delaware.

Dave



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