From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Rmail mbox-format branch Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 14:38:32 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <41406C46.6050505@pajato.com> <01c4969e$Blat.v2.2.2$d48c9a40@zahav.net.il> <20040909221947.GB11694@fencepost> <01c49717$Blat.v2.2.2$402ab840@zahav.net.il> <01c4972b$Blat.v2.2.2$64073b80@zahav.net.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1094819995 7942 80.91.224.253 (10 Sep 2004 12:39:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 12:39:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: pmr@pajato.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 10 14:39:46 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1C5kgr-0006xm-00 for ; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 14:39:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C5kmE-0007fP-Nd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 08:45:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C5klx-0007bv-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 08:45:01 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C5klu-0007ax-Gs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 08:44:59 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C5klu-0007au-Dp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 08:44:58 -0400 Original-Received: from [212.88.64.25] (helo=mail-relay.sonofon.dk) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.34) id 1C5kfj-0005zC-13 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 08:38:35 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 98344 invoked from network); 10 Sep 2004 12:38:33 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO kfs-l.imdomain.dk.cua.dk) (213.83.150.2) by 0 with SMTP; 10 Sep 2004 12:38:33 -0000 Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: <01c4972b$Blat.v2.2.2$64073b80@zahav.net.il> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 10 Sep 2004 14:42:26 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:26963 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:26963 "Eli Zaretskii" writes: >> But if we merge the rmail/mbox branch to trunk now, I'm much less >> optimistic :-( > > I don't understand why. Most Emacs suers don't use RMAIL anyway, so > please explain the reasons for your pessimism. Because "most emacs users don't use RMAIL" (i.e. only a few of the pretesters will actually test it) it will inevitably take some time for the more subtle bugs (which suddenly delete somebody's mailbox) to surface. And why delay 21.4 to include somethings which "most users don't use" ?? -- Kim F. Storm http://www.cua.dk