From 8ef11c9233d5cb1d02ae07e68a52b9eba7049f9a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric S. Raymond" Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 23:29:40 +0000 Subject: Version bump. svn path=/trunk/; revision=1960 --- design-notes.html | 16 ++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) (limited to 'design-notes.html') diff --git a/design-notes.html b/design-notes.html index ae45d54d..c856511c 100644 --- a/design-notes.html +++ b/design-notes.html @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
Back to Fetchmail Home Page To Site Map -$Date: 1998/06/29 21:38:03 $ +$Date: 1998/07/01 23:29:16 $

Design Notes On Fetchmail

@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ program isn't perfect, but it's trying.

The most-requested features that I will never add, and why not:

-

1. Password encryption in .fetchmailrc

+

Password encryption in .fetchmailrc

The reason there's no facility to store passwords encrypted in the .fetchmailrc file is because this doesn't actually add protection.

@@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ they're not portable.

I've thought about this a lot and roughed up several designs. All are complicated and fragile, with a bunch of the standard problems (what happens if a fetchmail aborts before clearing its semaphore, and how -do we recover reliably?)

. +do we recover reliably?).

I'm just not satisfied that there's enough functional gain here to pay for the large increase in complexity that adding these semaphores @@ -316,7 +316,7 @@ following minimum steps. forget the %token declaration.

  • Pick a long-form option name, and a one-letter short option if any - are left. Go to options.c. Pick a new LA_ + are left. Go to options.c. Pick a new LA_ value. Hack the longoptions table to set up the association. Hack the big switch statement to set the option. Hack the `?' message to describe it. @@ -412,8 +412,8 @@ a gift from the gods, and this is my expression of gratitude.

    The beta testers didn't know it at the time, but they were also the subjects of a sociological experiment. The results are described in -my paper, The Cathedral And The Bazaar, available on the -Fetchmail home page. +my paper, The Cathedral +And The Bazaar.

    Credits

    @@ -424,7 +424,7 @@ Hochheiser, who gave me the idea of the SMTP-forwarding delivery mode.

    Other significant contributors to the code have included Dave Bodenstab (error.c code and --syslog), George Sipe (--monitor and --interface), Gordon Matzigkeit (netrc.c), Al Longyear (UIDL support), Chris -Hanson (Kerberos V4 support), anc Craig Metz (OPIE, IPv6, IPSEC).

    +Hanson (Kerberos V4 support), and Craig Metz (OPIE, IPv6, IPSEC).

    Conclusion

    @@ -477,7 +477,7 @@ all shaped the design in one way or another.

    Back to Fetchmail Home Page To Site Map -$Date: 1998/06/29 21:38:03 $ +$Date: 1998/07/01 23:29:16 $

    Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>
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