[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Barry A. Warsaw) writes: > Mostly historical. When the current arrangement was designed > (pre-email package) we had the pickle and a plain text file, so it > was convenient to have two separate files. We could probably > combine then now except that it's more disruptive than I want for > MM2.1. Plus you have to decide whether the metadata will change > more often than the message pickle. At one time this was definitely > the case, so we could write the (smaller) metadata file quicker and > more often than dumping the whole thing out for each change in > state.
I'm confused. Currently, MM has a plain text file containing the message headers/body and a marshal containing the metadata. Are you saying that previously, the metadata was contained in the text file, and the message headers/body in a pickle? -- (http://tmda.net/) _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman-21/listinfo/mailman-developers
