Calling all regressions

[Michael Menge]

Quoting Adam Tauno Williams <adam at morrison-ind.com>:

> On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 12:07 +0100, Michael Menge wrote:
>> Quoting Bron Gondwana <brong at fastmail.fm>:
>> > Is there any good reason for a site to continue running 2.2 or even 2.1?
>> Some Enterprise Distibutions still use 2.2.x as they maintain the
>> same version for a very long time. E.g. Suse (SLES 10) uses Cyrus 2.2.12.
>> These Distrutions patch the software with own patches and backports,
>> but I don't know if SuSE backported changes from 2.3.x
>> > If there is - I want to know it, and I want to fix it, so we don't
>> > have to think about maintaining the old Cyrus.  There aren't enough
>> > of us working on Cyrus to split the effort!
>> > Now - also of interest is the cost of having to change
>> > configurations when upgrading.  2.3.x is NOT a direct dropin for
>> > 2.[12].x because some defaults have changed.  That's annoying.  I
>> > don't know any good solution other than refusing to start or
>> > complaining very loudly if those keys are NOT present in the config
>> > file.  I would make the error spit out:
>> Is there a way to know if cyrus was updated?
>
> Documentation is pretty miserable;  best source for changes is either
> <http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/imapd/changes.html> or to read the CVS
> commit maillist <http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/cyrus-cvs/> [or
> subscribe to it cyrus-cvs-subscribe at lists.andrew.cmu.edu ]

I think i should rephrase my question.

Is there a way for cyrus to know that it was updated
since the last time it did run, so it can do the things
suggested by Bron.

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