From: Bernhard Reiter (bernhard@uwm.edu)
Date: Sat Aug 14 1999 - 01:30:43 CDT
On Sun, Aug 08, 1999 at 02:18:39PM +0200, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> > I found the makefile in the archive directory very cumbersome and tried
> > to improve it a little bit. Result attached.
>
> That patch is only good for GNU make.
True. Though the lists.h will work with a normal makefile.
> Are we really ready to dump normal make
> and require GNU make?
Craig already said no.
I wouldn't have any objections in jumping to GNU make.
It is available and the Makefile looks a lot better.
They would gain a lot structure and typing errors would be harder to make.
But we could rewrite it to use sed and do some replacements in a
subshell.
Okay, two questions for that:
What is normal make. (E.g. is there a POSIX standard?)
What is normal sed?
(I see, 2a24 is out, will check...)
Right now I'm thinking in how hypermail and the scripts can help to
create nice overview pages for the content of different directories, if
e.g. saved in one archive per month.
The pipermail and e-group overview pages would be interesting examples
for that. See
http://www.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/
http://www.egroups.com/group/pythonpiddle/info.html
(I hope the last one is accessable by everybody.)
Maybe hypermail should leave a database script ready index file,
containing simple parseble lines like:
Mails=12
DateList=
1=3
12=5
Giving the messages per day.
Just a thought.
Two other things:
If the message was PGP/MIME signed, hypermail should
also save the signed message part as a seperate attachment in original
form. The webbrowser might then be able to load the signature and
the original message version and check the signature.
It would be nice, if hypermail could somehow manage to link to thread
messages in different month. Okay, seems hard to do, but it would
definately be a very useful feature to follow threads, which run over
more than one month.
My reagards to the hypermail developers, and thanks for mentioning
me on the Website, Daniel.
Bernhard
ps.: Somehow my last reply about the mailman integration is not in the
archive, I hope its content has reached the subscribers. Tell me if you
also only got an empty message, I will rewrite my answer if necessary.