Re: libar

From: Rolf E. Sonneveld <R.E.Sonneveld_at_sonnection.nl>
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 22:15:48 +0200

On 07/16/2012 12:56 AM, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote:
> Fellow OpenDKIM users,
>
> We are considering discontinuing support for libar. The primary
> reasons for this are:
>
> - the standard bind resolver is thread-safe these days (or so we're told)
>
> - unbound, for which we have support, does everything libar does as
> well as including DNSSEC support and thread-safe modes
>
> - adding libar to DNSSEC is a non-trivial notion, and would also seem
> to be redundant
>
> - having one less thing to maintain is a Good Thing(tm)
>
> - putting our support behind unbound will encourage DNSSEC deployment
>
> What sort of hardship would be created if this decision were to be
> made for 2.7.0? We would likely make this release in the last quarter
> of this year.
>
> Comments, please.

Excellent summary of pros (and no cons), +1 for this move.

/rolf
Received on Mon Jul 16 2012 - 21:16:35 PST