Hello,
sounds like you made some good experience with the batman-exp branch. Thats
really cheering to hear. Just, let me add some words regarding your
understanding of the different branches.
batman-exp has started as a branch to make batman more configurable - e.g give
the user more control about the system integration and even twist the core
routing algorithm.
Of course more flexibility also tends to make things more complex.
The majority of the developers did not wanted to have the bunch of optional
configuration options in the standard batman branch, thats why these features
were realized in a different branch.
Particularly its possibility to experiment with the core routing metrics has
lead to the extension "-experimental". Unfortunately, this has caused some
people to think that the maturity of batman-exp is less advanced than the
standard branch. This is NOT the idea, nor is it the other way around. Just
two different branches, supposed to coexist and enrich each other.
Of course such a biased opinion tends to hurt a bit, and for the release I am
already considering to rename it to something like -x or -exp. So it may
considered as batman experimental, expert, extremely professional, or what so
ever. But anyway, its just a name.
Approximately since the release of batman-0.3-alpha we have started to develop
some new mechanisms to make the core routing algorithm more aware of
asymmetric links and other stuff. And we had two different ideas to achieve
this. It turned out, that one approach was implemented in the standard branch
and the other one in the exp branch.
I think that both approaches definitively have their charm and their
shortcomings. And it requires the feedback of the users to further trigger
the evolution of these approaches. I am very grateful for that and any other
feedback, criticism, bug report, etc.
Regarding the versioning (0.3/0.4/apha/beta/rc1...). exp 0.3-alpha might be a
bit conservative. However, there is a very small list of other features on my
todo list which i would like to add before the code is freezed.
thanks,
axel
On Mittwoch 21 November 2007, Predrag Balorda wrote:
I have been using the exp branch for over 2 weeks now
and it is working
nicely. OK my set-up is not huge, only 4 batman-enabled nodes with
additional 6 repeaters as clients to batman nodes. Now I would like to know
when will someone decide to kill off the 0.3 beta and continue with exp 0.3
as the only batman? Maybe it's time to name it batman 0.4 and get rid of
the "experimental" designation altogether (you even got the official
ports)?
I even believe exp can be now released as another stable version.
Best regards to everyone on the list,
Pele
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