[Olsr-users] LAST CALL: RFC: removal of TAS plugin on Nov 9th, 2012

[Henning Rogge]

All old revisions of OLSRd will be always in the GIT repository.

Getting an old release as sourcecode is just one "git checkout
<nameofrelease>" away.

Henning

On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 11:26 AM, John Schultz <(spam-protected)> wrote:
> Rather than removing it from the tree, is there some way to archive it? (and
> no, I am not using the plugin, just speaking as a developer)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: (spam-protected) [mailto:(spam-protected)] On Behalf
> Of Ferry Huberts
> Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2012 1:21 AM
> To: OLSR Development List; olsr users mailing list
> Subject: [Olsr-users] LAST CALL: RFC: removal of TAS plugin on Nov 9th, 2012
>
> Last call!
>
> Tomorrow the TAS plugin will be removed, see below.
>
> On 29/10/12 15:10, Ferry Huberts wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Henning and I would like to remove the TAS plugin from the source tree
>> of olsrd.
>>
>> The reasons being:
>> - It hasn't been maintained for a long time,
>> - It's source code has a number of issues,
>> - It includes a _very_ outdated version of lua and upgrading that is
>> quite a challenge
>> - We don't know of any actual users of this plugin.
>>
>>
>> If anyone want to keep the TAS plugin in the source tree, now is the
>> time to respond with an explanation on why we should keep it.
>>
>> Note: we will most probably ask these people to take up maintainership
>> of the TAS plugin in exchange for keeping it in the source tree :-)
>>
>>
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