Re: [Nmh-workers] Cutting a new exmh release...

2017-04-23 Thread Tom Lane
valdis.kletni...@vt.edu writes: > The nmh guys are looking at finally deprecating mhn and shipping > only mhbuild. This raises a few questions: > 1) Would anybody complain if a new Exmh release said "You must have > nmh 1.7"? If I'm understanding the situation correctly, this is going to be a fl

Re: [Nmh-workers] Cutting a new exmh release...

2017-04-23 Thread Ken Hornstein
>If I'm understanding the situation correctly, this is going to be a >flag day thing, right? You must upgrade to nmh 1.7 at the same time >you upgrade to exmh-whatever, because neither new nmh with old exmh >nor the reverse case will work? No, not at all. AFAIK, nmh has ALWAYS (like, way back in

Cutting a new exmh release...

2017-04-23 Thread valdis . kletnieks
The nmh guys are looking at finally deprecating mhn and shipping only mhbuild. This raises a few questions: 1) Would anybody complain if a new Exmh release said "You must have nmh 1.7"? 2) Is anybody sitting on patches and/or important wish list items that aren't in the Sourceforge CVS tree? 3)

Re: [Nmh-workers] Cutting a new exmh release...

2017-04-23 Thread Alexander Zangerl
On Fri, 21 Apr 2017 11:26:51 -0400, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu writes: >1) Would anybody complain if a new Exmh release >said "You must have nmh 1.7"? i don't think this will cause any issues, make it so. >2) Is anybody sitting on patches and/or important wish list items >that aren't in the Sourcefo

Re: [Nmh-workers] Cutting a new exmh release...

2017-04-23 Thread valdis . kletnieks
(trimming nmh-workers out for the exmh-specific discussion) On Sat, 22 Apr 2017 11:05:23 +1000, Alexander Zangerl said: > On Fri, 21 Apr 2017 11:26:51 -0400, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu writes: > >1) Would anybody complain if a new Exmh release > >said "You must have nmh 1.7"? > > i don't think this w

Re: Cutting a new exmh release...

2017-04-23 Thread Chris Siebenmann
> 1) Would anybody complain if a new Exmh release said "You must have > nmh 1.7"? Is nmh 1.7 even released yet? Per http://www.nongnu.org/nmh/, the latest released version appears to be 1.6, and it's certainly the version shipping with many Linux distributions. Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Fedora 25, and ev

Re: Cutting a new exmh release...

2017-04-23 Thread Ken Hornstein
> Is nmh 1.7 even released yet? Per http://www.nongnu.org/nmh/, the >latest released version appears to be 1.6, and it's certainly the version >shipping with many Linux distributions. Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Fedora 25, >and even Debian testing all have nmh 1.6. It has not been released, but we're starti