----- Original Message ----- From: "Lee H" To: "General IRCD-Hybrid Discussion" Subject: Re: FW: ircd-hybrid release notification - ircd-hybrid-7.1.1 Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 08:57:56 +0000 > > On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 10:51:24PM -0400, Jon Lusky wrote: > > > > http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/ircd-hybrid/ircd-hybrid-7.1.1.tgz > > 97d5ca375831bb9cc42348383b836cf2 ircd-hybrid-7.1.1.tgz > > > > -- ircd-hybrid-7.1.1 RELNOTES > > Is there a reason you decided to deliberately break compatibility with > ircd-ratbox for remote XLINE? I find it somewhat confusing, especially > when I wrote a new syntax for these to go over ENCAP to avoid problems > with munging the old protocol. > > So now any temporary xlines from hyb7.1 -> ratbox will get converted to > permanent, and because you ignored the ENCAP method which avoids this > problem, temporary xlines from ratbox -> hyb7.1 are lost. Nobody decided to deliberately break compatibility or anything with ircd-ratbox. If you would have emailed us about your changes it would have been compatible. We can't read minds. > > http://www.leeh.co.uk/newcluster.txt -- I wrote that sometime early 2004 > and it was in a 'stable' release since May 2004. I think I also talked > to Bill about it, so I find it hard to believe there was no way for you > to realise id done this. > You wrote it in May 2004, but nobody told us about it. You may have talked to Bill, but Bill didn't talk to us about it. > If you want me to keep compatibility with hybrid, you have to play the > same game and not deliberately break compatibility with ratbox. Its > your call. > If you don't want things to break compatibility with ratbox, you should try emailing the list about your changes. > -- > Lee H ~Jack~ -- _______________________________________________ Get your free email from www.doramail.com with 30 Megs of disk space in webhosting and e-mail storage! Powered by Outblaze