Re: [Pan-users] Making Pan behave like OE/Windows Mail

2013-01-28 Thread Duncan
David WE Roberts posted on Mon, 28 Jan 2013 16:02:06 + as excerpted: > Yep - just tested a bit further. > For each numeric score, when sorted on score, the threads are sorted in > date order oldest first. > > So you get score - oldest to youngest Followed by score 100 - > oldest to young

Re: [Pan-users] Making Pan behave like OE/Windows Mail

2013-01-28 Thread Joe Zeff
On 01/28/2013 05:09 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: Sorting the data in the wrong order really quickly is not necessarily an improvement, and asking for a stable sort is not a luxury. Actually, for almost all of her needs the sort worked. There were only a few cases where there were several custom

Re: [Pan-users] Making Pan behave like OE/Windows Mail

2013-01-28 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On 29/01/13 05:51, Joe Zeff wrote: On 01/28/2013 04:02 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: If you're not asked for a stable sort, you can't exactly be criticised for not providing a stable sort. Much. To be fair, neither of us was aware of the "problem" until after the work was done. Yes, which is w

Re: [Pan-users] Making Pan behave like OE/Windows Mail

2013-01-28 Thread Joe Zeff
On 01/28/2013 04:02 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: If you're not asked for a stable sort, you can't exactly be criticised for not providing a stable sort. Much. To be fair, neither of us was aware of the "problem" until after the work was done. I knew how to write a shell sort and that it was loa

Re: [Pan-users] Making Pan behave like OE/Windows Mail

2013-01-28 Thread David WE Roberts
"Joe Zeff" wrote in message news:5105a24d.6080...@zeff.us... On 01/27/2013 01:00 PM, David WE Roberts wrote: I still don't understand why the latest threads want to snuggle up next to the negative scores instead of the positive scores. Sorting on several fields can be quite tricky. I reme

Re: [Pan-users] Making Pan behave like OE/Windows Mail

2013-01-28 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On 28/01/13 08:55, Joe Zeff wrote: On 01/27/2013 01:00 PM, David WE Roberts wrote: I still don't understand why the latest threads want to snuggle up next to the negative scores instead of the positive scores. Sorting on several fields can be quite tricky. I remember, once, many many years ag

Re: [Pan-users] Making Pan behave like OE/Windows Mail

2013-01-28 Thread Steve Davies
On 27 January 2013 21:00, David WE Roberts wrote: > > > I note that the version numbering in Bugzilla doesn't seem to match the > version numbering of the Windows versions. > > I just took a look at this - Not quite sure what you mean. The Windows version numbers are based on the version numbers