dbmail_2_0_branch is broken at the moment so I'm trying to use HEAD,
which, incidentally, doesn't seem to have the same problem with
spinning indefinitely (yay!).... *rolls HEAD out to production*
Is there a better branch to use?
Anyway, in trying HEAD, I unpleasantly discovered that dbmail now
depends on glib and gmime2 (yuk!). gmime requires imake, which
requires xorg-libraries. On FreeBSD, the list of packages required for
gmime to operate correctly is:
expat-1.95.8
fontconfig-2.2.3,1
freetype2-2.1.7_3
gettext-0.13.1_1
glib-2.4.6_1
imake-6.7.0_2
libiconv-1.9.2_1
perl-5.8.5
pkgconfig-0.15.0_1
xorg-libraries-6.7.0_2
which seems a little like overkill to me. The only reason I don't
particularly care is because this machine is generating PDF's via Qt,
so I need some of that stuff. But... is there a non-gnome mime
extension that could be used? gnome and its libraries is kinda like a
plague that infects software one repository at a time. I'm
particularly fond of libsmtp (LGPL) as a vastly lighter weight
alternative.
http://libsmtp.berlios.de/
but think that the following could be considered too:
http://libetpan.sourceforge.net/
http://freshmeat.net/projects/firemime/
Anyway, just something to think about. -sc
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Sean Chittenden
