Christopher Jahn wrote: > And it came to pass that Ben Bucksch wrote: > >> Christopher Jahn wrote: >> >>> Mail was completely re-written after 6.0 >> >> What? > > It was. N6.0 was two years ago.
6.0 was in November 2000. That's one year. > Surely you remember that Mail underwent a huge re-write a few months > later? It didn't. The only big thing done was the switch from XUL's <tree> to outliner (e.g. in the thread pane). It was bug, but far from a "complete rewrite". Most of the code is still the same. > So it would work at something other than a glacial pace? And sort > properly? It was all just that bad tree.
