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Re: Bug#364652: ITP: squid3 -- Internet Object Cache (WWW proxy cache) version 3



On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 20:54 +0100, Stephen Gran wrote:
> This one time, at band camp, Luigi Gangitano said:
> > * Package name    : squid3
> > 
> >  This is the Squid Internet Object Cache developed by the National
> >  Laboratory for Applied Networking Research (NLANR) and Internet
> >  volunteers.  This software is freely available for anyone to use.
> > 
> >  This is the new development version, totally rewritten in C++ with the
> >  latest features like ICAP added.
> 
> Is a new source package really needed?  Is there no sensible upgrade
> path?  I had sort of hoped it could be as drop in and go as most
> upgrades are, but perhaps not.
> 
> Take care,

Squid-3 will read the same config file, and the cache directory is
compatible so there is indeed an upgrade path. Its not a total rewrite -
its a port of the squid 2.5 C source to C++, but ....

squid 3.0 is not yet 'stable'. Squid 2.5 is still the stable series. And
we (upstream) don't maintain a single source tree - we have one tree for
2.X and one for 3.X. I don't think it makes sense to try and make a
single source package for this. I think you definately want to allow
co-installation though.

After 3.0 is considered stable, you could definately do a 'drop in and
go' approach.

Rob



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