I have built RC2 on my Gentoo Linux system. It mostly works. The tests all pass.
However. I have noticed that in 1.7.1 etc/mhn.defaults.sh searches for external programs par and fmt and iconv. If it finds them it outputs entries for, eg. mhbuild-convert-text: which use said programs in the pipeline. In 1.8-RC2 the programs are searched for and shell variables textfmt and charsetconv are assigned assigned accordingly, but the shell variables are not used so the programs are not used in the processing pipelines. Is this a deliberate decision or a regression? If it is a deliberate decision it should probably be documented in the NEWS and/or Changelog. Also, while rummaging about I noted that nmh-1.8-RC2/SPECS/nmh.cygport contains VERSION=1.7 RELEASE=2 Don't know if it is relevant, but it seems anomalous. DaveF
