[spambayes-dev] RE: [Spambayes-checkins] spambayes/spambayesOptions.py, 1.72, 1.73 classifier.py, 1.9, 1.10

[Tim Peters]

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[Kenny Pitt]
>> Currently, setting 'use_chi_squared_combining' to false
>> leaves you with no Classifier.spamprob() implementation.

[Meyer, Tony]
> That was also the case before (if you set use_chi_squared combining to
> False, and use_gary_combining to False).  It kinda fits too, as that's
> what you've set.  A case could me made for a default,

use_chi_squared_combining defaults to True now.

> but I doubt it really matters since only people that know what they are
> doing with the code are likely to much about with the combining method.
> (A good solution, IMO, would be to have a new option 'combining_method',
> which defaulted to 'chi2_spamprob', but could be the name of any
> classifier function).

Let's stick to the simplest thing that could possibly work, please.  An
enumerated type with one value (and which has had only one interesting value
for a year) would be pretty severe overkill!