squidguard and squid3

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Mon Apr 26 11:55:52 UTC 2010


On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 10:50:54 +0200
Guido Falsi <mad at madpilot.net> wrote:


> For the list: Is there some reason why the default squid port is still
> version 2.7? What is the consensus on this?

Squid 3.0 was a rewrite of squid in C++ with a reduced feature set.
I think the current situation is that there are still features in 2.x
that aren't in 3.x and vice versa.

2.7 has better performance, so I think it's still a sensible default. 


> Also, should the port provide some switch to choose on which squid
> version to depend 

Probably


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