[4079] in testers
Re: one utility not yet ready for 8.3
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jacob Morzinski)
Fri May 21 02:54:13 1999
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From: Jacob Morzinski <jmorzins@MIT.EDU>
Date: 21 May 1999 02:54:05 -0400
In-Reply-To: "Jacob Morzinski"'s message of "Thu, 20 May 1999 14:56:28 EDT"
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Well, I've frobbed exmh so that it checks /usr/athena/libexec/
for slocal (and falls back to /usr/athena/etc/ if it's not there).
To maintain compatibility with users' .maildelivery, I'd
definitely recommend making a symlink for /usr/athena/etc/rcvstore.
As far as future compatibility goes, the slocal we're using
has the patch that allows people to use lines of the form:
to jmorzins + ? "inbox"
rather than:
to jmorzins | ? "/path/to/rcvstore +inbox"
which will help reduce dependencies on pathnames. (Except for
Linux users, who probably won't see nmh for quite some time.)
I suppose the triage method would be to _only_ make symlinks for
slocal and rcvstore, update all documentation so that new users
reading about this only hear about the "+" rule for slocal, and
just hope that the people calling rcvstore by path slowly vanish.
-Jake
[Greg, I was wrong about slocal's .maildelivery syntax changing.
I was being confused by the fact that old slocal searches your
PATH for programs, while new slocal doesn't seem to.]
