remove inefficient maildirwatch - #93
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If I ever used maildirwatch, I don't remember it. But now I'm thinking that when we have user-facing functionality we intend to remove, and we can't be absolutely sure nobody uses it, we should publish our intent in advance. For example, in 1.08's release notes we can say "We plan to remove maildirwatch in our next release. We believe it's no longer relevant now that Maildir has wide tool support. If you still use maildirwatch, now's a good time to let us know." |
Second (maybe third) thoughts: meh. Maybe that'll be important when we have more users. For now, if we want to delete, let's delete. |
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qmail.7 has a reference to maildirwatch that needs to be removed.
Fourth thoughts, after IRC discussion with @alanpost: Given our claim to be conservative and careful, if we remove a program that someone was relying on without giving them a chance to change our minds, they will consider our claim false. It's expensive to have users perceiving us as rash; it's cheap to wait a little longer before deleting (or treating as extensions, which might feel pretty similarly satisfying). I've added Intent to remove to the 1.08 release notes, and a reminder in the 1.9 roadmap. |
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fine with me. |
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Please also prune the cross-ref to maildirwatch in qmail.7.
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This made sense at a time where maildir was a new concept, but most relevant mailers natively support maildir these days. There are also more efficient syscalls to watch directories meanwhile, and people usually also do not have local mail stores anyway. If one really needs it this can be done more efficiently using e.g. the *notify() syscalls on Linux.
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This made sense at a time where maildir was a new concept, but most relevant mailers natively support maildir these days. There are also more efficient syscalls to watch directories meanwhile, and people usually also do not have local mail stores anyway.