[mnet-devel] Radical suggestion: rollback

[Jim McCoy]

One question that I noticed in the older irc logs was someone asking 
why we were interested in a particular version of mnet_new that 
predated some of the more recent changes.  The answer is that we wanted 
stability and wanted to work on a version that had both the code re-org 
and the new FEC encoding format, but we were wary of some of the other 
changes and feared that they might break things.  This turned out to be 
correct.

I would like to propose creating an actual -STABLE branch in 0.7 that 
works.  It doesn't have to work well, but having a non-functional head 
is simply killing Mnet. What do I think should be in this branch? I 
would suggest the re-organized mnet_new code structure, the ZNFF 
encoding/storage format, and Tschechow's blockstores. Everything else 
that has been in progress or under development does not solve a current 
problem and inclusion at this time seems to create even more problems.

Getting a running, operational stable branch is critical for the next 
couple of weeks. It doesn't have to be pretty, but it can serve as a 
point from which new things can be slowly and carefully added.

Any objections or other suggestions on returning to a -STABLE path?

Jim



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