From: Deus Max <deusmax@gmx.com>
To: dick.r.chiang@gmail.com
Cc: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>,
37926@debbugs.gnu.org, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>,
Deus Max <deusmax@gmx.com>
Subject: bug#37926: [PATCH] Unify Gnus select methods
Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2019 16:52:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ftj672l8.fsf@dellcorei5dias.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zhhenzc4.fsf@dick> (dick r. chiang's message of "Sat, 02 Nov 2019 10:10:35 -0400")
On Sat, Nov 02 2019, dick.r.chiang@gmail.com wrote:
> One, to reiterate, the patch at hand is a useability improvement, protecting new users from
> the byzantine distinction of primary/secondary, and preserving the distinction
> internally for backwards compatibility. Some have argued keeping the internal
> distinction makes the patch unworthy of the risk, to which I am sympathetic.
>
You agree it is a usability improvement and that the current behaviour is
a byzantine distinction.
Sometimes to move forward, you have to break continuity.
Especially with byzantine practises, old OSes, etc., etc.
> Two, with mild effort, I could fully eliminate the distinction without user
> guidance or manually rewriting newsrcs. Such a change exacerbates risk.
Which is probably not mild. As you will discover from the many-many bugs
that follow.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-11-02 14:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-25 20:08 bug#37926: [PATCH] Unify Gnus select methods dick.r.chiang
2019-10-26 20:21 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2019-10-26 20:59 ` Andreas Schwab
2019-11-02 13:09 ` Deus Max
2019-11-02 13:36 ` Andreas Schwab
2019-11-02 14:09 ` Deus Max
2019-11-02 14:26 ` Andreas Schwab
2019-10-27 14:01 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-27 18:21 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2019-11-02 13:41 ` Deus Max
2019-11-02 14:10 ` dick.r.chiang
2019-11-02 14:52 ` Deus Max [this message]
2019-11-02 21:10 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2019-10-28 3:55 ` dick.r.chiang
2019-10-28 11:20 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-28 13:54 ` dick.r.chiang
2019-10-28 14:03 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-29 6:05 ` dick.r.chiang
2019-10-29 12:04 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-29 16:35 ` dick.r.chiang
2019-11-17 9:56 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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