Hi Peter,
My branch does not include Stefan's work and I know there are a couple of remaining problems with emacs compile. I am out of the country this week, but could work with you starting next week. I was going to convert the entire bzr tree to get the history and then merge in patches. Mark peter.julien.ray...@gmail.com <peter.julien.ray...@gmail.com> writes: > Just a quick note to say that the branch: > > > > bzr+ssh://markd-kermo...@bazaar.launchpad.net/~markd-kermodei/vm/vm-emacs-28/ > configured, made and ran out of the box under 29.3. I've not checked > the impact of Mark's other changes nor whether this includes or > obviates Stefan's cleanups but we have a potential base to work > from. If noone else steps up in a week I'll open a repo for this > version and look to integrate existing patches. A warning that if I do > this it will be github; that might stimulate others to offer to manage > on their preferred host. > Thanks again all for a wonderful tool. > regards > Peter > > > >However, I think whatever is left of the VM community needs to > >figure out if we want to breath new life into VM or let it join > >the crypt of yesterdays great software. > > > >Personally, I love VM, but the compatibility issues, as well as > >not scaling to modern email volume, is increasingly problematic. > >While I would be happy to be part of a community to resurrect > >and modernize VM, I just don't have bandwidth to be developing > >my own email client. > > > >If anyone is interested, lets start a conversation. VM is an > >amazing pieces of software. We might be able to attract others > >if we can seed a modern approach to collaborative development. > > > >Cheers > >Mark > > > >Stefan Monnier via General discussion of VM mail reader > ><viewmail-info@nongnu.org> writes: > >> > A naive attempt to clone from https://github.com/emacsorphanage/vm/ > >> > and run failed. I've been running a version from the bzr repo under > >> > 29.0.50. > >> > >> [ Hmm... 29.3 or the obsolete 29.0.50? ] > >> > >> > A few questions: > >> > - Am I starting from the right repo or is there a more recent version? > >> > - Are others running successfully in the case I'm trying? > >> > - Does any of the experienced maintainers have a sense of how hard this > >> > will > >> > be to fix? I'm willing to try it but would like an estimate of > >> > difficulty > >> > and time. > >> > >> Check the latest thread in this mailing-list, under the subject > >> > >> vm, emacs 28.2 (debian), urls in minibuffer > >> > >> where I sent a "cleanup" patch to help get the code closer to modern > >> ELisp. John Stoffel gave up on trying to make it work, but I don't > >> think it's should be very hard. I don't use VM myself, but I'm quite > >> experienced in fixing those kinds of things and would be glad to provide > >> guidance. Maybe you can team with John? > >> > >> > >> Stefan > >> > >> > > > > -- > Peter Rayner (he/him), Honorary Professorial Fellow, University of Melbourne > mobile +61 402 752 379 > zoom id 4431343191, join at > <https://unimelb.zoom.us/j/4431343191?pwd=a1E5Z3JEOTRVQUJsaVdRbVUvR1QyZz09> > mail-to: peter.julien.ray...@gmail.com > google scholar: > <https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=H3up71wAAAAJ&hl=en> > I acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land on which I work, the > Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation, and pay my respect to their Elders, > past and present > I am sending this email when convenient for me, please only respond when > convenient for you
