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

OvermindDL1 overminddl1 at gmail.com
Thu Sep 24 13:37:10 PDT 2009


On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 2:10 PM, John Criswell <criswell at cs.uiuc.edu> 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?

It did used to a few months back.  It was purposefully removed because
of some issues on the commit mailing list, I do not know why they
changed it for the discussion mailing list though.



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