Re: dar man page and -aa feature

Wiebe Cazemier wrote:
> Hey,

Hello,

> 
> A while ago, you agreed with me to switch the default behaviour of dar from -ac
> (--alter=ctime) to -aa (--alter=atime). I just installed dar 2.3.3 and I
> noticed -ac is still the default behaviour. I thought it was already
> implemented. Can you shed some light on this?

Sure. This is even implemented, but is still in the current development
version. Release 2.3.3, 2.3.2, 2.3.1 only bring bug fix to the 2.3.0.
This let me provide release with less intensive testing. You will have
to wait for release 2.4.0, I am sorry for the delay.

You must consider the time I impose for the testing of a major release.
- I would not be satisfied of my work if I would released a buggy software
- I would have a lot of support requests which would eat my all my time
and would avoid me doing more interesting things like adding new features.

> 
> Also, I provided a patch for the man page which better explains -aa and -ac. I
> can remember getting a message the patch was applied, but the man page is not
> updated yet.

This patch on the man page is also in the development version. (You can
get it from CVS, but please don't use it for backing up your system as
some new feature will be added before release 2.4.0 that will break
backward compatibility from the current development version to the next
development version, backward compatibility is assured from release to
release, not between two development versions).

I am sorry for the delay, as much more as there is still several
challenging features that I would like to have the pleasure to implement
for release 2.4.0. Then, there will still be a pre-release phase to
pass. Thus please, keep patience! :-)

Regards,
Denis.

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