Re: [Mailman-Users] Hint: mmdsr.sh and Mac OS X Leopard

2008-01-06 Thread Brad Knowles
On 1/6/08, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: Isn't this the kind of thing that can be dealt with in the configure script? I don't know the autoconf tools, but I thought that this was the sort of problem it was designed to address. For mmdsr, there is no configure script. I wrote mmdsr to help me

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hint: mmdsr.sh and Mac OS X Leopard

2008-01-06 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Jan 6, 2008, at 5:56 PM, Brad Knowles wrote: On 1/6/08, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: Isn't this the kind of thing that can be dealt with in the configure script? For mmdsr, there is no configure script. [...] This is an officially unsupported tool that is provided in a totally separate

[Mailman-Users] Hint: mmdsr.sh and Mac OS X Leopard

2008-01-03 Thread Steve Burling
Over the holiday, I took the opportunity to do a long-overdue hardware and OS upgrade of my home Mailman server. I'd been running Mac OS X 10.3.9 (!), and moved to a slightly-less-antique box running Mac OS X 10.5.1. Mostly, everything went smoothly, but there were a few minor gotchas. One

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hint: mmdsr.sh and Mac OS X Leopard

2008-01-03 Thread Mark Sapiro
Steve Burling wrote: Over the holiday, I took the opportunity to do a long-overdue hardware and OS upgrade of my home Mailman server. I'd been running Mac OS X 10.3.9 (!), and moved to a slightly-less-antique box running Mac OS X 10.5.1. Mostly, everything went smoothly, but there were a few

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hint: mmdsr.sh and Mac OS X Leopard

2008-01-03 Thread Brad Knowles
There are older versions of sort that don't accept the Gnu-specific syntax, while of course there are other (gnu) versions that don't support the older syntax. There's not much I can do to fix that -- the person installing the code needs to make changes as appropriate for their platform.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hint: mmdsr.sh and Mac OS X Leopard

2008-01-03 Thread Brad Knowles
That will break on some older systems. Since there is a mutual incompatibility problem here, we need to give people an easy way to select between the two options, depending on their OS. -- Brad Knowles [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent from my iPhone On Jan 3, 2008, at 1:42 PM, Mark Sapiro [EMAIL

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hint: mmdsr.sh and Mac OS X Leopard

2008-01-03 Thread Mark Sapiro
Brad Knowles wrote: That will break on some older systems. Since there is a mutual incompatibility problem here, we need to give people an easy way to select between the two options, depending on their OS. On Jan 3, 2008, at 1:42 PM, Mark Sapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Burling

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hint: mmdsr.sh and Mac OS X Leopard

2008-01-03 Thread Brad Knowles
On 1/3/08, Mark Sapiro wrote: I will change this to make the relevant sort $SORT -n $SORT_FIELD with an appropriate definition of SORT_FIELD in the front with the other definitions. That should work. I'll also make that change on my official version of the code on the server for