Re: [Pan-users] A question about scorefile usage

[Duncan]

Tom Tanner via Pan-users posted on Mon, 2 Jan 2023 20:45:27 +0000 as
excerpted:

> What I'd like to do is to fix these up so that they behave like the slrn
> documentation. (One : -> all rules must match to apply the score, two :s
> -> if any rule matches, apply the score). However, I'm posting this
> because it might break peoples existing rules (manually created ones
> only).
> 
> Feedback would be appreciated.

This has been a longstanding nitpick of mine (tho while I knew it didn't  
work exactly as documented I hadn't gotten into the details to the level 
you did), so fixing it is certainly appreciated.  

But the heads-up is also certainly appreciated and I believe we should 
make a special note of it in the announcement for the version with the fix 
(and possibly for several versions since many distros and their users may 
skip that specific version).

And of course, note it in the git commit as well, for people like me that 
run the git version but faithfully check the git logs on upgrade. =:^)

Depending on how much work you want to do with the implementation, maybe 
do a single-time warning dialog with it as well (but IMO auto-conversion 
is unwarranted complexity and a bug invitation too far), that will popup 
the first time the fixed version runs, then store the fact that it ran 
somewhere (new preferences.xml line?) so it doesn't need to bother the 
user again.

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