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Date:      Wed, 15 Jun 2005 12:41:10 +0200
From:      Anton Berezin <tobez@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Vsevolod Stakhov <vsevolod@highsecure.ru>, freebsd-ports-bugs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ports/82235: New port: mail/mutt-ng
Message-ID:  <20050615104110.GA56428@heechee.tobez.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050615090623.GA27207@alaska.cert.siemens.com>
References:  <200506150810.j5F8AEPA013710@freefall.freebsd.org> <20050615090623.GA27207@alaska.cert.siemens.com>

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On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 11:06:23AM +0200, Udo Schweigert wrote:

> As the maintainer of the mutt ports I vote against it.

I don't think it is a reasonable position.  There will undoubtedly be a
number of people willing to give it a try, and the rest is just politics
better to be avoided in the ports tree.

> 1. The -ng project was launched because there was a feeling by some people
>    that the mutt developers don't drive the project with enough power. That was
>    mainly because the main mutt-developer refuses to include patches into
>    the source tree he considers unstable. This behavior is IMHO reasonable
>    and OK as I mainly want a stable mail client.
> 
> 2. I think all features of mutt-ng can be compiled into mutt-devel if you
>    switch on the right knobs.
> 
> 3. When did you try to use the sidebar support (it has been fixed by the 
>    patch-author recently)? I got feedback by another user who said the new
>    patch fixed his issues. Did you submit a PR on that?

Cheers,
\Anton.
-- 
The moronity of the universe is a monotonically increasing function. --
Jarkko Hietaniemi



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