Re: [sup-talk] Maildir support

[dtk <d.t.k@gmx.de>]

Hi Damien,

Excerpts from Damien Leone's message of Mon Apr 11 11:22:09 +0200 2011:
> By default sup doesn't modify the sources at all.
why is that? I thought the way a MUA is supposed to work with a maildir is
rather straight forward[0]?

> There is a branch
> that allows backward synchronization, you will find more informations
> at the following address:
>
> http://www.mail-archive.com/sup-devel@rubyforge.org/msg00983.html
Thanks for the hint!!
I am a bit suspicious, though :| I don't know much about git, but doesn't that
essentially mean that the branch is always stuck behind the features in master
until the new features have manually been merged in?
And that for every release of master a manual release of the 'maildir' branch
has to be made?

Additionally, I consider this a very basic feature. What happens, if there is
another basic feature that is maintained in _another_ branch? How will I ever be
able to use them together?

You know, I'm just wondering why this feature isn't merged in upstream. Are
there any reasons why anyone would _not_ want proper maildir handling? Or is this
just a political decision (scared, since I've seen a few of those pull down cool
projects :/)?

Anyway, thanks for your fast reply!
dtk


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[0]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maildir#Technical_operation

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