Re: Rmail-mbox branch

[Paul Michael Reilly]

Glenn Morris wrote:
> Paul Michael Reilly wrote:
>
> > The pmail*.el and related files I created are temporary and pretty much 
> > only committed to the trunk as a convenience to make Rmail/mbox testable 
> > without having to use a branch so I didn't create a ChangeLog for these 
> > files.
> >
> > After I work out with the maintainers when to inflict Rmail/mbox on all 
> > Users, the ChangeLog will be created.
>
> This all seems rather odd. I assume you took the rmail-mbox-branch
> (With some extra changes? It's unclear...), extracted the files that
> actually differed from the trunk, and installed them into the trunk as
> pmail*. Fair enough, this might indeed make it easier for people to
> try out.

That certainly was the goal.  Richard made a suggestion which I will 
implement shortly that automagically check for an existing Rmail/babyl 
formatted PMAIL file which it will then convert to mbox format.  This 
will make trying out Pmail event easier.

> I don't see why you wouldn't just take the existing ChangeLog from
> that branch and install as ChangeLog.pmail, rather than instead
> creating two odd directories with CVS info that I doubt anyone will
> ever read...

Good idea. Done.  I committed the info directories just because 
Rmail/mbox has a history of people working on it and then disappearing 
(including myself) for years at a time.  So I wanted to have some 
mechanism, albeit temporary, to capture what was done and not done to 
bring Rmail/mbox up to date.

Thanks,

-pmr