Update version converters needed

The Doctor doctor at doctor.nl2k.ab.ca
Tue Apr 11 20:37:12 UTC 2000


On Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 01:25:54PM -0700, Brian Kantor wrote:
> >> > Also Is INN 2.X threading?
> >> No, it isn't.
> >Well the above should be implemented before INN 2.3 is released.
> 
> I'm inclined to ask why.  Do you believe that there is some great improvement
> in efficiency, portability, or maintainability of the existing program to be
> gained thereby?
> 
> If one were writing a whole new program, and all the platforms on which it
> would be run were to have good, working support for kernel threads, then
> it would be a reasonable idea.  But to reconstruct a program that was not
> designed in that manner is asking for problems - and we're nowhere near
> through fixing bugs in the existing code.
> 
> INN suffers enough from "second system syndrome" without this.
> 	- Brian
> 
> 

Care to laughed at by cyclone?

UUNet moved away from INN to Cyclone and
a number of backbone providers have as well
due to 'overhead'.



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