ports/82235: New port: mail/mutt-ng

[Udo Schweigert]

On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 08:10:14 +0000, Vsevolod Stakhov wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR ports/82235; it has been noted by GNATS.
> 
> From: Vsevolod Stakhov <vsevolod at highsecure.ru>
> To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, vsevolod at highsecure.ru,
> 	novel at FreeBSD.org
> Cc:  
> Subject: Re: ports/82235: New port: mail/mutt-ng
> Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 12:02:13 +0400
> 
>  As for me mutt-devel dumps core when it is built with sidebar support 
>  during switching mailboxes. Another reason is that mutt-ng is official 
>  fork of mutt client and I think that it would include some interesting 
>  features. But if you think that it is not worth porting there is no 
>  problem - I'll use it for myself.

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

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?


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