On Tue, 2010-04-27 at 13:14 -0400, Howard Roberts wrote: > > It is about the handiest mail checker I've come across.
I am pleased with it, and the pop up notification is much more informative than GNUBiff. > FWIW, you did > some tweeking to the list headers shortly after I sent that mail, and > whatever the issue was with sender and subject not appearing was > resolved as a result...ty. Not a problem I believe it was the result of a unwanted non-cross platform line return or something along those lines. > I have no idea why it wouldn't work for you at all until now, but I see > that often with various apps. Seems like upstream mods to all the > different players involved: the app itself, X, the desktop manager, etc. > (udev, hal, dbus, -- you know the drill) take a while to smooth > themselves out. I've just learned to patiently accept it :p Basically hit the nail on the head. Open source projects must stay in sync with their dependencies which most times are also open source projects. Things evolve at varying intervals and some what non-stop, constant breakage and fixing. Binary distros get around that some what by mitigating the breakage, and fixing it as best they can for a given point in time. Patience is required as well as cooperation with upstreams. Though I have seem the same upstream release two packages from two of their own projects that were out of sync. Some remained that way for years.... It's one of the reason I prefer Gentoo and Gentoo really doesn't have versions or releases. Because open source software is constantly evolving, so does Gentoo. Most do releases based around core packages, gcc, glibc, binutils, xorg, gnome, kde, etc. But as a whole pretty hard to take snapshots of the open source world. Which is a moving target. But the out of sync and dependencies on things beyond a given projects control. Is one thing that makes FOSS very different from most proprietary software and operating systems. Where they pretty much control it all. -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] List archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 RSS http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml
