Re: inn

Noel Butler <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.slackware
Message-ID <[email protected]>
 

On 25/08/2014 04:59, netrixtardis wrote: 

> On 8/24/2014 1:31 AM, /dev/rob0 wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 01:55:59PM +1000, Nick Edwards wrote: So, when was inn removed? And anyone know why? I remember wondering the same thing a few years back. Seems that I looked, but I failed to find the project. I looked again just now; lo and behold, there is a somewhat active project right here: http://ftp.isc.org/isc/inn/ [1] Current release 2.5.4 just over three months ago. I also remember looking back through some old Slackware ChangeLogs to seek an answer to the second question. I don't remember finding that, either. Furthermore I am too tired/lazy to try to hunt it down now, but there's where you might look. Failing all else, ask Pat. Perhaps he did not know the project has continued and/or been reborn.

Looks like it was moved from n/ to extra/ in slackware-9.1. Then dropped
during dev of 13.1 with the release a new kernels, compiler and glibc on
May 14 2010. My guess is that time, it no longer was building, and there
was no new releases of the source...

netrixtardis@

Wouldn't have said it was dead, but as with working software, no need to
release often like certain un-named non-slackware distros desire... but
that said, it was not overly dormant, so maybe Pat had other reasons for
dropping it, I mean 2014 is almost over, and he still favours sendmail
over postfix :) 

inn-2.4.5.tar.gz 2008-06-29 

inn-2.4.6.tar.gz 2009-03-01 

inn-2.5.0.tar.gz 2009-10-12 

inn-2.5.1.tar.gz 2009-10-12 

inn-2.5.2.tar.gz 2010-03-24 

inn-2.5.3.tar.gz 2012-06-15 

inn-2.5.4.tar.gz 2014-05-17 

(We will soon, well, OK, maybe in the next few years or so, be
decommissioning dnews, and moving to inn - simply because dnews is not
ipv6 capable, which is sad, because its very very powerful and great on
cpu/memory/high-num-users management, it does everything we need and
more so very well, but when the world is heavily using ipv6, and when
its only ipv6 addresses dished out, we'll have to move with the times
too, and migrate) 

As to the OP question, wasnt slackware a fan of nntpcache? (not looked
for years) perhaps thats why inn was dropped? 

cheers 

 

Links:
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[1] http://ftp.isc.org/isc/inn/

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