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Re: Rmail-mbox branch
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Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: Rmail-mbox branch |
Date: |
Mon, 01 Sep 2008 16:52:26 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
> Only that there will very likely be a raft of messages to the affect
> of "What the fuck happened to Rmail..." My oft stated opinion is that
> we should commit the Rmail/mbox code immediately after a release thus
> giving us the maximum amount of time to fix Rmail/mbox bugs.
> Admittedly Rmail/mbox has been less buggy than I had expected it would
> be in the week or so that I've been using it. Richard has found a
> couple of bugs, as have I, one of which was the same bug. So for me
> the answer to your question depends on when the next release of Emacs
> is targeted. If it is imminent, like in weeks or a few months, then I
> would advise waiting. If it won't happen for many months, then now is
> as good a time as any.
> The only area I know is incomplete is confirming that spam filtering
> is up to date. I think it is but there is a few commits to
> Rmail/babyl that I'm not sure are relevant to Rmail/mbox.
> Also, there is one suggestion that Richard made that will facilitate
> automatic conversion of Babyl formatted file to mbox format. This one
> should probably be completed before we make the switch.
Installing pmail on the trunk as it is now only makes/made sense on the
assumption that it's temporary and will be moved to rmail before
the release. "The" release here is 23, since the trunk holds the code for
Emacs-23.
Emacs-23 is in feature freeze but hasn't started pretesting.
You could call it something like `alpha' or `beta' quality.
The sooner you can move Pmail to Rmail the better (it's the one
remaining feature that hasn't yet been installed, so it's an exception
to the feature freeze).
I don't use Rmail myself, so I can't really comment concretely, but as
soon as Pmail's feature-set is equal to (or a superset of) Rmail and
those features are mostly working, we should move Pmail to Rmail.
>From what you say, it seems that we're really close now.
Stefan
Re: Rmail-mbox branch, Paul Michael Reilly, 2008/09/01
Re: Rmail-mbox branch, Paul Michael Reilly, 2008/09/01
- Re: Rmail-mbox branch, Chong Yidong, 2008/09/01
- Re: Rmail-mbox branch,
Stefan Monnier <=
- Re: Rmail-mbox branch, Richard M. Stallman, 2008/09/01
- Re: Rmail-mbox branch, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/09/01
- Re: Rmail-mbox branch, Richard M. Stallman, 2008/09/02
- Re: Rmail-mbox branch, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/09/02
- Re: Rmail-mbox branch, Paul Michael Reilly, 2008/09/03
- Re: Rmail-mbox branch, Chong Yidong, 2008/09/03
- Re: Rmail-mbox branch, Glenn Morris, 2008/09/03
- Re: Rmail-mbox branch, Richard M. Stallman, 2008/09/03
Re: Rmail-mbox branch, Paul Michael Reilly, 2008/09/02