[9851] in SIPB bug reports
Re: warning wrapper script around sipb pine?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Sat Jan 10 12:03:26 2004
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Arun A Tharuvai <aatharuv@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.55L.0401100128010.14575@multics.mit.edu>
Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 12:03:22 -0500
On Sat, 2004-01-10 at 01:44, Arun A Tharuvai wrote:
> Can anyone think of any problems if I stick in a wrapper script for pine
> which checks for the existence of ~/.athena-pine-noask, warns them that
> they're on a really really old machine and may notice breakage, and then
> tells them to either run pine-imap, or tells them to login to
> athena.dialup to check their mail? The only problem I can think off
> offhand is that people who have add -f sipb in their dotfiles who were
> unknowingly running sipb pine would abruptly notice a difference in
> behavior.
That seems fine. The failure case should be rare (people who add -f
sipb and use pine have probably been doing the "add -f sipb" for a long
time, and thus have probably never run athena pine, and thus don't have
any .athena-*pine-noask files), and it fails loudly rather than
catastrophically.
Make sure the wrapper script lets people know to contact
bug-sipb@mit.edu if they have questions.
