[3946] in testers
Re: nmh (Athena 8.3) and mh-e/exmh
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (chad brown)
Wed Apr 7 15:25:59 1999
To: Dan Winship <danw@MIT.EDU>
Cc: emacsdev@MIT.EDU, bug-sipb@MIT.EDU, testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 07 Apr 1999 15:13:20 EDT."
<199904071913.PAA29578@snorklewacker.mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 15:25:41 -0400
From: chad brown <yandros@akamai.com>
> nmh is the future.
Sure, if for no other reason than nmh is being maintained. Because of
that, though, we could most likely convince Rich Coleman to adopt our
changes if they were ``the Right Thing'', especially since -[no]group
is a new feature.
mh-e will probably need to change anyway; the 20.4 prereleases, at
least, contain few bugs that I've found while converting back to MH
recently (most annoying: don't have mh installed when installing
emacs, and then install nmh with ``--prefix=/usr/local'', and
mh-find-progs will almost certainly fail).
That's why I asked the two separate questions: "is it ``the Right
Thing''?" and "is release willing to do it?".
Incidentally, it might amuse you to note that the 20.4 prerelease
mh-e, at least, implies heavily that nmh changes were added to support
NetBSD. :-)
chad
