[Mailman-Developers] on the subject of fix_url, list creation with @ is non-intuitive..

[Tokio Kikuchi]

Hi,

Terri Oda wrote:

> On Oct 24, 2004, at 10:19 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> 
>> I think you'd have to change this in a backward compatible way.  A
>> counter proposal would be to add name:domain (simply change the '@' to a
>> ':') so it doesn't look like an email address.  Continue to support the
>> original argument syntax for backward compatibility, but change the
>> documentation to favor the name:domain syntax.
> 
> 
> I was thinking of doing the same thing but with a space instead of a :.
> I can't think of any reason not to keep the backwards compatibility as 
> long as we don't leave the confusing stuff in the documentation.

Wouldn't it be better to introduce '--urlhost=' option and keep '@' for 
backward compatibility?

$ bin/newlist --urlhost=www.dom.ain listname
or
$ bin/newlist listname at www.dom.ain

> 
> If I didn't feel guilty using my laptop while proctoring my students' 
> exam, I'd write the patch tomorrow while I'm stuck sitting in a quiet 
> room.  I might do it later in the evening, though, if no one else gets 
> to it first.

We need no hurry for release of 2.1.6 is not yet scheduled. ;-)

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