Ken Hornstein writes: > So, out of curiousity I went back and dug into these changes ... I see > they were committed on August 19th, 2002. More than 11 years ago! The > previous changes to that were all in July, and then a HUGE gap from > those to March of 2001. That was also back during our transition from > mhost to savannah ... and from the mailing list archives, it doesn't > look like you sent out any email about the change either (correction: > looks like there was a brief announcement on 2002-11-29). So ... I > expect the reason that it wasn't controversial was that no one noticed > (I actually didn't notice that support for years, I am sure).
Actually, I sent out a ton of email on it. Starting on 8/13/00. I still have the emails if they were lost due to the change. For example: > Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2001 07:47:27 -0700 > To: [email protected] > From: Jon Steinhart <[email protected]> > Subject: New code that simplifies user interface for MIME attachments to a > draft > > I posted some code that improved the user interface for adding MIME > attachments > to messages some months ago. While the code worked fine, I didn't really like > the way that I had implemented it and have subsequently done it over. Since I > don't have write access to the CVS, please look it over and check it in if it > looks OK to you. If it doesn't, let me know what you think should be changed. > Here's the contents of the README-ATTACHMENTS file that is included with the > patches: > > Jon Steinhart's ([email protected]) Attachment Handling Patches > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > Attached are a set of patches designed to improve the nmh user interface > for handling MIME attachments. > > Why Did I Do This? > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > Although nmh contains the necessary functionality for MIME message handing, > the interface to this functionality is pretty obtuse. There's no way that > I'm ever going to convince my partner to write mhbuild composition files! > And even though I know how to write them, I often screw up when sending a > message that contains a shell script because I forget that I have to double > any # at the start of a line, which shell scripts have galore. > > These patches simplify the task of managing attachments on draft files. > They allow attachments to be added, listed, and deleted. MIME messages are > automatically created when drafts with attachments are sent. > > Did I Do This Correctly? > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > Hard to say. Despite lots of time looking at the nmh code, I can't say that > I get the philosophy behind its structure. > > I am aware of two deviations from what I saw in the nmh code. > 1. I commented my changes. > 2. It's been years since I've used a VT-100, so I don't try to make code > fit into 80 columns anymore. Seems silly to me. > > What Did I Do? > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > ... _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
