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List:       exmh-users
Subject:    Re: error reusing a draft  (and version consistency)
From:       Fred Douglis <douglis () research ! att ! com>
Date:       2001-09-24 14:14:33
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kchrist@lsil.com said:
> So, it seems I still can't reproduce the bug. If I can find the time
> I'll try a clean 2.5 install (instead of CVS) to see if I can
> reproduce  the bug there. 

(gulp)  <-- the sound of me swallowing my pride :)

There's a reason you couldn't reproduce it.  Turns out I had a modified copy 
of msg.tcl floating around.  It had been so long since I had customized exmh 
in any fashion, or used tcl/tk explicitly, I'd forgotten where these were, and 
looked in the wrong place.  

Sorry for the wild goose chase!

This does bring to mind a suggestion, though: is there support in tcl for 
requiring specific versions of files, and if so, would it make sense for the 
driver code to use that?  I doubt I'm the only one to ever get burned by an 
older version taking precedence over a newer one, but this should be 
detectable.  (Even without explicit tcl support, each file could simply set or 
check some global variable...) 

Thanks again for checking out this phantom bug report, and sorry for not 
catching this sooner.

Fred




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