bogofilter-0.16.2 - new current release

David Relson relson at osagesoftware.com
Sat Jan 17 04:19:44 CET 2004


On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 03:55:52 +0100
Matthias Andree <matthias.andree at gmx.de> wrote:

> On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Clint Adams wrote:
> 
> > > Do not use options with _optional_ argument. Either "mandatory
> > > argument" or "does not take argument".
> > 
> > I like it the way it is, except for the incompatibility with 0.16.1.
> > Probably this would have been less surprising if this had been a
> > bump to 0.17.
> 
> We have no portable and good way to reliably parse optional arguments
> unless we link in third-party libraries.
> 
> > However, you could return -u to no-argument and use another option
> > for the cutoff.  Wastes a letter, but doesn't break .procmailrcs.
> 
> That's what I'd recommend.

Suggest a letter.  Me thinks having a config file option is adequate and
that the letter is unneeded.




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