[Mailman-Developers] I patched syncmail to look prettier to my eyes.

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.]

Barry A. Warsaw writes:
 > Fred was just musing that the syncmail script, is both a historical
 > misnomer, and seems to be used in a lot of projects now.  He wondered
 > whether we should rename it and make it more available to the
 > SourceForge community at large.  I'd be all for that, and am willing
 > to add it as a Python snippet on SF.

  Snippets don't have documentation; syncmail does:

https://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=772&group_id=1

  A separate project is too much, though, so I'm not sure what to do.

 > Can't do that, unless you have two recipient lists.  I never thought
 > the diff style was worth going to all that extra trouble.

  It probably is worth supporting per-use configuration, though;
support -c/-u to specify which to use seems reasonable, and --minimal
would be nice as well (implemented appropriately for both context &
unified diffs).

 > Never heard of one.  I think context diffs still make the most sense
 > for syncmail.

  So they should be the default.


  -Fred

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