[dev] my IMP broke

[Jon Parise]

On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 04:46:40PM -0500, Rich Lafferty wrote:

> I'm playing devil's advocate somewhat here, as I haven't tried to use
> Atif's version to actually handle mail (as compared to going "Oh,
> that's how it works"), but it strikes me that a "radically alter
> interface" user preference is about the biggest support nightmare
> there is. :-) I *could* see it working well as a configuration
> setting, or even as a set of patches in a rejuvenated contrib/
> section.

I'd prefer the patches to exist separately from mainline IMP, but
that's just my personal preference for the user interface (nothing
personal, or anything).

I suppose having it as a user preference is alright, but it would
introduce a number of support issues (for both us, as the developers,
and for the site administrators, too) as far as consistency and
variability is concerned.

-- 
Jon Parise (jon@csh.rit.edu)  .  Rochester Inst. of Technology
http://www.csh.rit.edu/~jon/  :  Computer Science House Member