Re: [Etherboot-developers] changes checked into CVS

[Michael B. <mb...@fe...>]

On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, Ken Yap wrote:
> >Forgot to mention: I've also burned about 200 copies of the RC1 code into
> >silicon for various customers, since I was happy that RC1 worked
> >sufficiently well for my needs.  It's going to cause me and them a lot of
> >hassle if I have to replace 200 EPROMs because of a change that broke
> >backwards compatibility between RC1 and final release.
> This is always going to be an issue for versions. Again, nothing is
> official until it's non-RC. You can always keep a patch file around and
> stick to the text version.

Guess I'll have to rework dhcpd.conf so that it can cope with both
versions.  This is doable but it's just incredibly irritating: the text
version was discussed on the mailing list, was implemented by me without
any serious objections, has remained unaltered for the past month and a
half, made it into RC1 and then gets changed at the last minute.  I'd have
appreciated it if you'd warned that you were planning this change.

Michael