Charles Marcus schrieb:
On 9/21/2009 11:33 AM, Eric Jon Rostetter wrote:
Of course, eventually I'm sure dovecot will hit a wall where performance improvements will be negligible, but for now, the difference between the 1.0.x version and 1.2.x is so great that anyone who refuses to upgrade is simply missing out.
Again, this might be storage related, or something... Don't assume it applies to everyone.
The differences between 1.0.x and 1.2 apply to everyone... but obviously there are a lot of other factors that can impact performance in both directions...
But not everyone has the same requirements profile, and particularly not yours.
If I'm using Dovecot 1.0.X to serve a handful of users with Maildirs, I don't care a bit even for 90% of performance back or forth. I do care about maintenance.
If it works well in practice and is not known to be insecure, why mess with it.
"Works well" in the reporter's case is a matter of analyzing what's up before figuring out all the nitty-gritty details of rebuilding the package just to have an update. If you miss any migration needs for the new version, or a distro patch, you're way more screwed than the OP.