Re: Aging Dependencies?

>Anyone heard of plans regarding what to do about aging
>dependencies for exmh?  I'm trying to bring a Fedora 16 machine
>up to capable, which includes installing exmh.  I can live
>without faces, especially now that Outlook 2010 finally has
>faces -- how many decades has it taken them to catch up, er, uh
>innovate?

I _think_ for that all you need is compface/uncompface, which exmh
includes.

>I found metamail for Fedora 16 on-line, maybe it was at pkgs.net?

MacPorts includes a "mmencode" package which has the piece you
really need (you don't really need all of metamail).  There's a
built-in base64 encoder/decoder in exmh, but there is a file
descriptor leak in there somewhere; I never was able to track it
down and installing mmencode was just easier.  Perhaps one of us
should consider creating an RPM for that?

>expectk has been dropped by the author(s) of expect, as of
>version 5.45, in lieu of tclsh run in the right way ("Please use
>tclsh with package require Tk and Expect instead of expectk").
>But, Fedora 14 has expectk and I'm going to package it in a way
>so I can get a functional expectk executable and support for
>that, but without conflicting with the Fedora 16 expectk package,
>which oddly no longer contains expectk.

>From what I remember .... the only use of expect/expectk is for handling
MIME external-body messages.  I haven't gotten one of those in forever,
and I think the last time I _did_ the support didn't work.  Do you get
a lot of those?  I mean, people would probably just email you a URL
nowadays, right?

>FWIW, I'm doing all this with an exmh CVS download with the
>newest component dated 2012-01-23, if that's important.

That is itself part of the problem ... exmh hasn't gotten a lot of
love lately.  A new release is overdue.

--Ken