Re: [Nmh-workers] Autoconf changes & new feature

2010-11-19 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
> As for me well, to paraphrase a line from "The Tao of Programming", > "I do not wish to learn another version control system!". Amen. > I've already had to learn git for a work project, and once I've gotten > into it I've been pretty happy with it. I haven't heard anyone really > scream a

Re: [Nmh-workers] Autoconf changes & new feature

2010-11-19 Thread Ken Hornstein
>because sasl.h is in /usr/include/sasl/sasl.h Whoops ... okay, I'll fix that. >You have some reason for wanting to move away from >savannah? (they support arch, bzr, git, mercurial >and svn.) Huh, shows what I know. If savannah supports git, then that's fine with me. As for me well, to p

Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh2?

2010-11-19 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
> It need not promise > perfect backward compatibility, I would think reason enough > to start anew. Already done, 15 years ago. It's called webmail. And thanks for spoiling what was until now a pleasant Friday evening :-P ___ Nmh-workers mailing lis

Re: [Nmh-workers] Autoconf changes & new feature

2010-11-19 Thread Ken Hornstein
>I would expect most distros to use either /usr/include or /opt/mumble. >The mumble might be standardized by now, I dunno.Perhaps I'm >far enough removed from distros these days that I'm wrong; that would >be nice. Note that with the OLD autoconf code, if you actually did --with-cyrus-sasl

Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh2?

2010-11-19 Thread Jon Steinhart
> Given the recent discussions: > > Should we move the current nmh project to maintenance-only > mode, and start up a separate nmh2? It need not promise > perfect backward compatibility, I would think reason enough > to start anew. > > And it could be written in C++ :-] > > David Sounds like a

Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh2?

2010-11-19 Thread Chad Brown
On Nov 19, 2010, at 5:00 PM, David Levine wrote: > And it could be written in C++ :-] You have a funny way of spelling `Python'. ;-) *Chad ___ Nmh-workers mailing list Nmh-workers@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers

Re: [Nmh-workers] Autoconf changes & new feature

2010-11-19 Thread Chad Brown
On Nov 19, 2010, at 2:28 PM, Peter Maydell wrote: > Debian currently builds --with-cyrus-sasl=/usr/include > which I think would correspond to just using --with-cyrus-sasl. > And most distros ought to be able to cope with setting CPPFLAGS > and LDFLAGS for the build. I would expect most distros

[Nmh-workers] nmh2?

2010-11-19 Thread David Levine
Given the recent discussions: Should we move the current nmh project to maintenance-only mode, and start up a separate nmh2? It need not promise perfect backward compatibility, I would think reason enough to start anew. And it could be written in C++ :-] David _

Re: [Nmh-workers] Autoconf changes & new feature

2010-11-19 Thread Peter Maydell
Ken Hornstein wrote: >> Also there doesn't seem >>to be anything in ChangeLog about this... > >Sigh. It was getting late, I had to go home ... I wanted to get >that stuff out there. I'll do the ChangeLog later. I'd care a lot less about ChangeLog if we had a vcs that let us look at a sane change

Re: [Nmh-workers] Autoconf changes & new feature

2010-11-19 Thread Ken Hornstein
>>While this isn't a big deal personally, I will hazard a guess that >>this change is unacceptable to nearly every package distro. I don't >>know that we care, but I'd further guess that they'll either add the >>functionality back in or (more likely) not include these versions of >>nmh. > >Debian

Re: [Nmh-workers] Autoconf changes & new feature

2010-11-19 Thread Peter Maydell
Chad Brown wrote: >On Nov 19, 2010, at 12:22 PM, Ken Hornstein wrote: >> Now you can no longer say --with-cyrus-sasl=[DIR]; you have >> to say --with-cyrus-sasl and use CPPFLAGS/LDFLAGS to add any options you >> need for getting SASL from an alternate location. > >While this isn't a big deal person

Re: [Nmh-workers] Autoconf changes & new feature

2010-11-19 Thread Chad Brown
On Nov 19, 2010, at 12:22 PM, Ken Hornstein wrote: > > Now you can no longer say --with-cyrus-sasl=[DIR]; you have > to say --with-cyrus-sasl and use CPPFLAGS/LDFLAGS to add any options you > need for getting SASL from an alternate location. While this isn't a big deal personally, I will hazard

[Nmh-workers] Autoconf changes & new feature

2010-11-19 Thread Ken Hornstein
I had some time, so I took a look at the autoconf code that nmh uses. Yikes ... okay, we don't do a great job here. Actually, that is being kind ... we really do a TERRIBLE job with autoconf, don't we? I had forgotten how bad it is. We could probably eliminate 80-90% of the autoconf tests we cu