[dvblast-devel] DVBlast 1.2 ?

[Christophe Massiot]

At 13:33 +0100 19/02/10, Marian =?utf-8?B?xI51cmtvdmnEjQ==?= wrote:

>  > Not much activity lately, and many interesting features in SVN... Can
>>  we take it that the current SVN is stable and can be released as 1.2
>>  ? Please yell if not.
>
>Hi Christophe,
>
>   yes, making a release would make sense given the IPv6 support etc.
>However, we do need to look at the problem with CAM polling - recently
>we've done some tests with PowerCAM PRO (PCAM v4.3) and it turns out
>that the time taken by this CAM to respond to periodic "pings" is
>as high as 100 msec (and the whole dvblast is blocked for this time
>5 times per second). Thus we'd need to look for solution which you
>already described, i.e. to rework the whole state machine to avoid
>the second poll() in TPDURecv and TPDUSend.

Well this feature is definitely a must have, but it takes time (and 
testing), and we need a new release quickly otherwise we won't be in 
the next Debian stable, so I propose postponing it to 1.3.

-- 
Christophe Massiot.