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From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
Cc: Netfilter Developer Mailing List
	<netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Netfilter user mailing list <netfilter@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Formal submission of Xtables2
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 16:16:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121213151615.GA6962@1984> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.01.1212131528410.1273@nerf07.vanv.qr>

On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 03:53:45PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
[...]
> In my opinion, there is nothing wrong with keeping some concepts. A
> developer is not required to reevaluate and reinnovate every concept
> there has been just for the heck of it. (The old "evolution, not
> revolution" credo.) Throwing everything overboard generally does not
> turn out to work these days.

Nobody is going to throw everything overboard. Nftables is backward
compatible while providing a new framework, revolutions are never
backward compatible.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-12-13 15:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-13  6:00 Formal submission of Xtables2 Jan Engelhardt
2012-12-13 11:00 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2012-12-13 11:36   ` Jan Engelhardt
2012-12-13 12:05     ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2012-12-13 13:08       ` Jan Engelhardt
2012-12-13 14:28         ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2012-12-13 14:53           ` Jan Engelhardt
2012-12-13 15:16             ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]
2012-12-13 16:41               ` Jan Engelhardt
2012-12-13 17:25                 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2012-12-13 18:19                   ` Jan Engelhardt
2012-12-17  0:08                     ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2012-12-17  1:39                       ` Jan Engelhardt
2012-12-17  9:53                         ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2012-12-17 10:12                           ` Maciej Żenczykowski
2012-12-17 13:01                           ` Jan Engelhardt
2012-12-17 14:30                             ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2012-12-17 20:51                               ` Jan Engelhardt
2012-12-17 23:49                                 ` Jozsef Kadlecsik
2012-12-18  1:11                                   ` Jan Engelhardt
2012-12-18  1:27                                   ` David Miller
     [not found]   ` <20121214094141.GO2606@workstation>
2012-12-16 23:57     ` Pablo Neira Ayuso

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