Re: [Mailman-Users] Hint: mmdsr.sh and Mac OS X Leopard

2008-01-06 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Jan 6, 2008, at 5:56 PM, Brad Knowles wrote: > On 1/6/08, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: > >> Isn't this the kind of thing that can be dealt with in the configure >> script? > For mmdsr, there is no "configure" script. [...] This is an > officially unsupported tool that is provided in a totally sep

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hint: mmdsr.sh and Mac OS X Leopard

2008-01-06 Thread Brad Knowles
On 1/6/08, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: > Isn't this the kind of thing that can be dealt with in the configure > script? I don't know the autoconf tools, but I thought that this was > the sort of problem it was designed to address. For mmdsr, there is no "configure" script. I wrote mmdsr to help

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hint: mmdsr.sh and Mac OS X Leopard

2008-01-06 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Jan 3, 2008, at 8:25 PM, Brad Knowles wrote: > On 1/3/08, Mark Sapiro wrote: > >> I will change this to make the relevant sort >> >> $SORT -n $SORT_FIELD >> >> with an appropriate definition of SORT_FIELD in the front with the >> other definitions. > > That should work. I'll also make that ch

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hint: mmdsr.sh and Mac OS X Leopard

2008-01-03 Thread Brad Knowles
On 1/3/08, Mark Sapiro wrote: > I will change this to make the relevant sort > > $SORT -n $SORT_FIELD > > with an appropriate definition of SORT_FIELD in the front with the > other definitions. That should work. I'll also make that change on my official version of the code on the server fo

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hint: mmdsr.sh and Mac OS X Leopard

2008-01-03 Thread Mark Sapiro
Brad Knowles wrote: >That will break on some older systems. Since there is a mutual >incompatibility problem here, we need to give people an easy way to >select between the two options, depending on their OS. > >On Jan 3, 2008, at 1:42 PM, Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Steve Burl

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hint: mmdsr.sh and Mac OS X Leopard

2008-01-03 Thread Brad Knowles
That will break on some older systems. Since there is a mutual incompatibility problem here, we need to give people an easy way to select between the two options, depending on their OS. -- Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent from my iPhone On Jan 3, 2008, at 1:42 PM, Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL P

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hint: mmdsr.sh and Mac OS X Leopard

2008-01-03 Thread Brad Knowles
There are older versions of sort that don't accept the Gnu-specific syntax, while of course there are other (gnu) versions that don't support the older syntax. There's not much I can do to fix that -- the person installing the code needs to make changes as appropriate for their platform. T

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hint: mmdsr.sh and Mac OS X Leopard

2008-01-03 Thread Mark Sapiro
Steve Burling wrote: >Over the holiday, I took the opportunity to do a long-overdue hardware and >OS upgrade of my home Mailman server. I'd been running Mac OS X 10.3.9 >(!), and moved to a slightly-less-antique box running Mac OS X 10.5.1. > >Mostly, everything went smoothly, but there were a

[Mailman-Users] Hint: mmdsr.sh and Mac OS X Leopard

2008-01-03 Thread Steve Burling
Over the holiday, I took the opportunity to do a long-overdue hardware and OS upgrade of my home Mailman server. I'd been running Mac OS X 10.3.9 (!), and moved to a slightly-less-antique box running Mac OS X 10.5.1. Mostly, everything went smoothly, but there were a few minor gotchas. One wa