ANNOUNCE: new Robinson-variant version of bogofilter

[Graham Wilson]

On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 07:30:53AM -0400, Greg Louis wrote:
> On 20021024 (Thu) at 2017:15 -0500, Graham Wilson wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 01:35:25PM -0400, Greg Louis wrote:
> > > original calculation method at all.  I've therefore been maintaining
> > > two bogofilter trees, one that tracks the cvs code with its
> > > -r and -g options, and one outside the project that supports the
> > > Robinson calculations only.  Apart from a couple of cosmetic wording
> > > changes in the -v output, that's the only difference between the two
> > > versions (cvs -- as of this writing -- and my own).
> > 
> > if the versions are mostly the same, why dont you just get the changes
> > added into cvs? if you dont want the robinson code at all, maybe that
> > could be configured as a flag to configure (--with-algoriths=robinson)?
> 
> I suggested that initially, but David (rightly) believes we haven't
> enough test results to make a final decision, and until then he would
> prefer to have both in the cvs tree.  I have made a personal decision
> to run Robinson's method only in production; others may decide
> likewise, but a large ymmv disclaimer applies.  My patch is against
> 0.7.5 not cvs; cvs will change, but my patch won't -- not till a new
> stable release appears, unless I add or backport some new
> functionality.

i meant that we could keep both the graham and the robinson algorithm in
cvs. the user could then select one at runtime (-r or -g) or at compile
time (--with-algorithm={graham,robinson,both}).

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gram