Thomas, et al --

...and then Thomas Roessler said...
% 
% I've just released the next mutt beta, version 1.3.24i.

I see the new PATCHES file and its use in the ChangeLog.  Yay :-)

One thing that I note is that, unless I'm confused (not out of the
question by any means), the patches will be listed in the PATCHES file
and thus in `mutt -v` in the reverse of the order in which they were
applied.  That is, if I ran

  tar xpfz mutt-1.3.24i.tar.gz
  cd mutt-1.3.24
  patch < ../compressed
  patch < ../outlook
  make
  ./mutt -v

I would see

  ...
  patch.outlook
  patch.compressed

in my results.  Is this desirable?

Unfortunately there's no OS-portable way to reverse the PATCHES file's
order; not all OSs have tac (or is it rev?) or perl.  Can the patch that
updates PATCHES append the patch to the BOTTOM of the file, perhaps by
inserting right before a THIS-IS-THE-END-OF-THE-FILE magic token that
patchlist.sh can recognize and ignore?

Perhaps it's trivial, but with the cocktail I use it's quite important to
know which patches were applied in which order -- and I'd have to have to
think bottom-up :-)


TIA & HAND

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