option proliferation

[Greg Louis]

On 20030801 (Fri) at 1251:12 -0400, David Relson wrote:
> >
> >"solved" := exit codes 0, 1 and 2 retain the meanings they've had in
> >bogofilter 0.13.7.x and unsure becomes some other code (I don't care if
> >it's 3 or some other figure from 4 to 99).
> 
> If people want them changed, I'm willing to swap error and unsure.  The 
> particular values don't really matter, though I like having error as the 
> biggest.
> 
Procrustean stupidity is what motivates insistence that 2 for error
remain unchanged.  We should put the damn error code up to 255 and
promise it will stay there, thus making everybody equally (un)happy ;)

That said, if there's anybody out there who's (a) capable of adapting
bogofilter to his needs in the stripped-down form to which Matthias
aspires, and yet (b) incapable of dealing with a change in the return
code, his needs are greater than mine (I'll just continue patching the
source to "do it my way") and I don't give a carunculated turd what
numerical values the distribution version employs, as long as there
_is_ a separate return code for unsure (which probably breaks all those
poor scripts anyhow).

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