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Re: UI stuff (was Re: How to display format=flowed?)



> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-mutt-dev@xxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:owner-mutt-dev@xxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Derek Martin
> Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 5:32 PM
> To: Paul Walker
> Cc: mutt-dev@xxxxxxxx; mutt-users@xxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: UI stuff (was Re: How to display format=flowed?)
> 
> On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 11:13:56PM +0100, Paul Walker wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 02:13:40PM -0400, Derek Martin wrote:
> > 
> > [...]
> > > stubbornly against that idea.  Greatly improved code modularity 
> > > reduces the pain of maintaining patches that Thomas 
> rejects, which 
> > > thus reduces the barriers to people hacking on Mutt.  And 
> of course, 
> > > all the
> > 
> > To quote from the kernel guys, -ENOPATCH.
> 
> Which misses the point entirely.
> 
> There's no point in writing the code, if it has no hope of 
> being included.  So far, those in control have poo-pooed the 
> whole idea.
> 

Which doesn't mean a whole lot really.  Mutt's been forked at least once
already.  Write the code, and if it's rejected, fork.  Mutt is a small
enough app for this to be eminiently practical for anybody who really wants
to do it.

-- 
Gary R. Van Sickle