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It was time for the name change. The new design looked much more like a dual of sendmail than the old popclient had; both are MTAs, but where sendmail pushes then delivers, the new popclient pulls then delivers. So, two months off the blocks, I renamed it fetchmail.
It was time for the name change. The new design looked much more like a dual of sendmail than the old popclient had; both are MTAs, but where sendmail pushes then delivers, the new popclient pulls then delivers. So, two months off the blocks, I renamed it fetchmail.
이름을 바꿀 때가 된 것이다. 새로운 설계는 예전의 popclient 보다는 sendmail 과 비슷해 보였다. 둘다 MTA였으나 sendmail은 푸시(push) 후에 메일을 배달했고 새로운 popclient 는 풀(pull) 후에 메일을 배달했다. 해서 두 달 후에 나는 popclient 의 이름을 fetchmail로 바꾸었다.
이름을 바꿀 때가 된 것이다. 새로운 설계는 예전의 popclient 보다는 sendmail 과 비슷해 보였다. 둘다 MTA였으나 sendmail은 push 후에 메일을 배달했고 새로운 popclient 는 pull 후에 메일을 배달했다. 해서 두 달 후에 나는 popclient 의 이름을 fetchmail로 바꾸었다.
There is a more general lesson in this story about how SMTP delivery came to fetchmail. It is not only debugging that is parallelizable; development and (to a perhaps surprising extent) exploration of design space is, too. When your development mode is rapidly iterative, development and enhancement may become special cases of debugging—fixing `bugs of omission' in the original capabilities or concept of the software.
There is a more general lesson in this story about how SMTP delivery came to fetchmail. It is not only debugging that is parallelizable; development and (to a perhaps surprising extent) exploration of design space is, too. When your development mode is rapidly iterative, development and enhancement may become special cases of debugging—fixing `bugs of omission' in the original capabilities or concept of the software.