On 2009-04-27, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo at geek-central.gen.new_zealand> wrote:
> In message <gt3a7k$8ds$1 at panix3.panix.com>, Aahz wrote:
>
>> In article <gt0f2d$t52$1 at lust.ihug.co.nz>,
>> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo at geek-central.gen.new_zealand> wrote:
>>>
>>>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.
>>
>> Are you volunteering to maintain trn3.6?
>
> Either there are enough people using it to care about it, in which case
> somebody in the community will fix it, it or there are not, in which case
> it's not worth bothering with.
Except _it's_not_broken_. It follows the established set of
rules for manipulating mbox mailboxes. It follows the set of
rules that all other mbox MUAs and MTAs use. Python's library
is not following the rules, and your response is that the rest
of the world should change?
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