On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 8:00 AM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay < sankarshan.mukhopadh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 5:20 PM, Mandar Vaze / मंदार वझे > <mandarv...@gmail.com> wrote: > > When choosing a tool, I typically check when was the last "active" > > development. > > If my requirement is low enough - something that isn't updated in few > years > > might also work for me "now" > > but when I need a security update, and no one is maintaining it, I am out > > of luck (I know, open source, fix it yourself, but honestly just because > > one has access to source, doesn't mean one has skills to fix) > > Mutt does have activity. At least <https://github.com/karelzak/mutt-kz> > has. > > Applications are as good as the design decisions which result in their > development. If someone finds that that new fangled applications are > not providing enough merit to switchover, the possible reason might be > that the decisions of design and user experience are something that > does not meet this user's requirement. That happens all the time and, > there's not much achieved by boiling the ocean. > Activity/nonactivity is not a correct parameter. What about qmail? There is hardly anything happening on qmail. But it is still popular, secure and it just works !! -Sudhanwa -- ~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~! web: www.sudhanwa.com blog: www.sudhanwa.in Twitter: sudhanwa Check on FB, Linkedin for more. _______________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List
