[LLVMdev] Headers (Was Re: help with llvm make system)

Chris Lattner clattner at apple.com
Thu Sep 24 13:31:24 PDT 2009


On Sep 24, 2009, at 1:10 PM, John Criswell wrote:

> OvermindDL1 wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Jon H <hantheman12 at hotmail.com>  
>> wrote:
>>
>>>> Whoops, sending it to to llvm list as well, freaking takes  
>>>> another ~70
>>>> seconds to do a reply to all instead of a reply to, headers still  
>>>> not
>>>> following standards of every other list I have ever been on...
>>>>
>>> Stop whining about the headers. It's getting old.
>>>
>>
>> It is also a rather massive inconvenience...
>> I open an email on this tablet and I get a typing area underneath it,
>> is responds to what the header says it should respond to, which is
>> correct for my other 20+ mailing lists, but for this one I need to  
>> tap
>> the To: field, draw out the first few letters of ll then it
>> autocompletes the rest, then do the main section that is this.  Doing
>> a Reply-To takes even longer.  It is just odd and inconsistent how
>> this mailing list does not do what every other mailing list does.  I
>> see no reasoning why it does so, it somewhat makes sense for the
>> commit list, but certainly not for a discussion list.
>>
> I believe the llvmdev headers used to provide a "Reply-To:" field to
> llvmdev.
>
> Has anyone changed this behavior, and if so, why?

Yes, this was discussed back when it changed.

-Chris



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