From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r105648: Make sendmail-query-once update send-mail-function directly. Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 14:45:12 -0400 Message-ID: <878vpu6hqf.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <877h5nniu9.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1315766728 16487 80.91.229.12 (11 Sep 2011 18:45:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 18:45:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 11 20:45:24 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R2p1w-0003jL-1W for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 11 Sep 2011 20:45:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42973 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R2p1v-0000Vz-EV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 11 Sep 2011 14:45:23 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:59850) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R2p1q-0000Vj-Jt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Sep 2011 14:45:21 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R2p1m-0006ev-GB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Sep 2011 14:45:18 -0400 Original-Received: from vm-emlprdomr-03.its.yale.edu ([130.132.50.144]:49197) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R2p1m-0006eq-DB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Sep 2011 14:45:14 -0400 Original-Received: from furball (c-71-192-165-84.hsd1.ct.comcast.net [71.192.165.84]) (authenticated bits=0) by vm-emlprdomr-03.its.yale.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p8BIjC9a011531 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT); Sun, 11 Sep 2011 14:45:13 -0400 In-Reply-To: (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Sat, 10 Sep 2011 20:20:46 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.71 on 130.132.50.144 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 130.132.50.144 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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 Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:143896 Archived-At: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > The difference is that we're forcing the users to a single value now > that we can't ever change again. So if, for instance, the Linux > people pull themselves together and create a proper API for querying > how mail is supposed to be sent out, this is something that few Emacs > users will be using, since if we change the default in Emacs 26.1 to > `send-mail-using-the-clever-new-linux-api', they'll never see it. Users who have customized send-mail-function independently, prior to Emacs 24, would encounter the same problem. In the event, it woud be more reliable to hard code a check into the mail-sending functions, similar to what we did in compose-mail when switching from mail-mode to message-mode as the default mail user agent.