[Mailman-Developers] Having more than 16,000 lists

Barry A. Warsaw barry@zope.com
Sat, 15 Dec 2001 23:54:53 -0500


>>>>> "MM" == Marc MERLIN <marc_news@valinux.com> writes:

    MM> I haven't yet had the time to work on this, but I wanted to
    MM> know what your preference was between a hack that optionally
    MM> creates mailman/foo/l/li/listname dirs at the time the list is
    MM> created, and then sets symlinks back to where the rest of the
    MM> mailman code expects to see the files and dirs, or a bigger
    MM> change to teach all of mailman about the new file and dir
    MM> location (no more symlinks) Of course, if we go with the no
    MM> symlink route, making the deep subdir config optional would be
    MM> a bit more work.

    MM> What's your take on this, and which route would you prefer?

At this point, whatever causes the least disruption of the code base
the better. ;)

-Barry