[2538] in Release_7.7_team
Re: IMAP text client
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Karl Ramm)
Sun Jan 14 16:07:23 2001
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>, release-team@MIT.EDU
From: Karl Ramm <kcr@1ts.org>
Date: 14 Jan 2001 16:07:18 -0500
In-Reply-To: Greg Hudson's message of "Sun, 14 Jan 2001 15:48:41 -0500"
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Actually, given our lack of familiarity with the software and the kinds of
earth shattering bugs pine tends to have, attachandrun scripts seem like a
good idea.
kcr
Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:
> > c) Include pine and mutt in the release
>
> We're unlikely to do this. It's too much work, and I like to apply a
> high threshold for having two programs in the release to do the same
> thing.
>
> Incidentally, I think the popularity of xmh is because it's talked
> about in the Athena documentation, not because you have to add a
> locker in order to use exmh. Even if we had both pine and mutt in the
> release, the "Welcome to Athena" folder et al would probably only talk
> about one of them; just as the Athena developers don't need the extra
> effort of maintaining two mail clients, TPS probably doesn't need the
> extra effort of documenting two terminal mail clients and trying to
> come up with reasons why users might want to use one or the other.
>
> So, pine it is, I think. (I'll wait until Wednesday's release team
> meeting to confirm that this is reasonable before doing the actual
> import.)
