V4 VCL roadmappery...

[Lasse Karstensen]

On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 12:34:27PM +0000, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 12:05 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:
> > A new vcl_fetch{}
> >         This will (a little later) replace vcl_miss{} and vcl_pass{}
> >         Pipe (probably) doesn't go here, it's too magical.
> >         vcl_fetch{} is called to pick backend and polish the bereq
> >         for backend, including disabling conditional fetches.
> >         (req.backend becomes bereq.backend)
> Maybe I'm coming in late to this game, but is it really necessary to
> reuse the old name? I'm seeing a lot of confusion amongst people for
> the simple reuse of "purge" in version 3 to mean something completely
> different to what it used to mean. This sounds like it could be even
> worse... Probably a lot less confusing if a completely new name can be
> invented, if it's a new function that does something else...

+1.

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With regards,
Lasse Karstensen
Varnish Software AS