From: Daniel Stenberg (daniel@haxx.se)
Date: Wed Jan 03 2001 - 01:19:51 CST
On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Rev. Bob 'Bob' Crispen wrote:
> I've seen some tests in configure files for cygwin, but -- perhaps
> because of the former fork -- they haven't worked too well, though this
> has shown up mostly on C++ which (thank God) we haven't got.
I've successfully run configure scripts on cygwin myself. A few years back
when I actually still bothered to compile things on windows from time to
time. It proved to work rather well.
C++ is troublesome in configure scripts in general, but let's not get into
that in this forum.
> Unfortunately, that means somebody has got to write the code in configure
> that tests for cygwin, mingw32, getpwuid(), getopt(), etc.
>
> I have this sinking feeling that I know who that somebody is. ;-)
I'll happily volounteer to write the configure hacks to detect whatever we
think is necessary. Just detecting the presense or absense of single
functions are dead-easy. I'd have to dig around a little on how others have
done to detect cygwin and mingw32 if we need that.
> Sigh. Looks like something else we have to cope with. I'll take it on,
> since I'm the one who's made the archives look crummy. Basically it
> boils down to s/Re(.*):/Re:/ followed by s/Re: Re:/Re:/ iterated. That
> may cure a couple of other email client peculiarities as well (e.g., "Re:
> RE:", which I haven't seen in the wild, but suspect might happen when
> somebody with a proper email client responds to a reply from an Exchange
> user).
As was later noted, this should already be dealt with. I believe I've been
involved in fixing that.
However, this brings up a dear favourite of mine and an idea I've been having
for quite some time:
full regex search and replace in mails
We can filter out Re: strings and remain confident we remove silly text added
by email clients. We can perhaps removed FW: or (fwd) strings. But as Tom von
Alten elegantly shows with his perl script, there will be times when one of
us wants to remove german strings. I'm a Swede, I use hypermail for pure
Swedish lists at times and some localized email clients prepend swedish
versions of Re: to replies. I would love to strip that off.
Many mailing list softwares add "[listname]" to the subject line and while we
have a kludgey hack that does its best at removing such strings it could be
better with a general purpose search/replace feature...
Many mailing lists add weird stuff in the beginning or end of mails that are
sent out to subscribers. I would like hypermail to be able to filter off
parts of mails that I have found not part of the mail body.
I've not thought this through properly and I don't have a suggested
implementation or syntax on how to control this, but I've missed this many
times...
> Btw, I may not have access to MSVC++ for a while at work, so I'm
> definitely looking for a volunteer who's got that to give it a try when I
> get the Windows build for hypermail ready for tentative release.
I'm sure someone will pop up, or else we'll ignore that compiler until somone
comes along that gives it a try.
> Incidentally, I think we should definitely consider supplying the Win32
> binaries for hypermail
"we" are free to supply binary versions for any platform, but I figure
windows is the single most important and requested binary package.
Speaking of these things, we should probably ask Kent of someone else could
be let in to admin the web site do add such things and maybe do a general
overhaul of the hypermail.org web.
> I do *not* want to see us get into the situation I've seen in other open
> source projects where the Win32 version is a separate branch (and
> therefore requires separate hand maintenance)
I totally agree.
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