Status of 2.4 release

[Russ Allbery]

Jeffrey M Vinocur <jeff at litech.org> writes:

> What sort of stability will we claim to have in 2.4.0?  It seems like we
> haven't allowed all that long for things to settle down.  Or maybe there
> are more people running on the bleeding edge than I realize?

I've been running it for a while and will upgrade to the latest CVS
snapshot before we release, and it sounds like Alex has been running it as
well.  I think it's being reasonably well-tested at this point, so I'm not
too worried about stability.

>> Also, one other question.  There are several mechanical changes to lots
>> of INN that I think should be done at some point, but that tend to make
>> it harder to apply old patches.

> I agree with making them.

It sounds like there's consensus on doing this, so I'm going to start on
it (as well as committing the patches to innfeed to feed the backlog
first).  We may as well do it now, since I've already done a ton of
similar sorts of changes in INN 2.4.

>>  * Remove all the (void) casts on functions everywhere.

> Were those inserted just to make lint shut up, or because we actually
> don't care about the result?  (What I'm really asking is, does the
> person doing this need to keep an eye out for system calls with return
> values not being checked?)

I don't believe one needs to check that; most of them date from the
original release of INN and were just the original coding style.

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