On 2009-04-26, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <l...@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> wrote: > In message <_vqdnf6pny1gymzunz2dnuvz_qcdn...@posted.visi>, Grant Edwards > wrote: > >> ... if one didn't care about backwards-compatiblity with old e-mail >> apps, then one would use a less broken mailbox format like >> maildir. > > It's only in the proprietary-software world that we need to worry about > backward compatibility with old, obsolete software that the vendors cannot > or will not fix. In the Free Software world, we fix the software to bring it > up to date.
Who's "we"? Are you volunteering to fix all of the MUAs and MTAs out there that have mbox code in them that do follow the rules to make them compatible with _one_ broken library module? It would be a lot simpler to fix Python's library so that _it_ followed the same rules that everybody else does. For Pete's sake, it's _two_lines_of_code_. -- Grant -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
