On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 23:19:14 at 11:19:14PM +0200, Brad Knowles wrote:
>
> You're welcome to take on that task for whatever OSes & projects
> you see fit, but I don't think that it's fair to ask the mutt
> maintainers to do this for every OS under the sun.
>
> No, the original mutt tarball should stick to only code that is
> specific to mutt, and if it requires or can make use of anything
> else, that should be made clear in the documentation and in the
> "configure" script.
>
Brad,
I agree, the utils must remain separate (for that matter, several of
them are not even mutt specific...). See what I answered yesterday to
Sven in the message "Re: utilities -> extra archive". In general, I
believe in many small packages, not big monolithic things.
Note about "every OS under the sun". 80% of the utilities we probably
want to include are shell or Perl script: the difference between
versions for RH versus Debian versus *BSD versus Solaris .....
should really be quite manageable in this case, shouldn't they. And,
in any case, a burden for the maintainers of this *separate* package,
not for those of mutt.
What about a home page? Is something like this worth a sourceforge
URL? If not, I can set up some temp space on the RULE site (where I
would eventually talk of this package anyway).
Ciao,
Marco Fioretti
Red Hat 7.3 in 8 MB of RAM: www.rule-project.org
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