Re: OT: Roland Puntaier / "getmail6" drama

On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 08:42:31AM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote:
> He also claims I am using "aggressive language" when I point out how irritated
> I am that he has taken the name of my 23-year-old software project and started
> dragging it through the mud without my permission.  I personally feel I have
> earned the right to defend the good name of my project.

There is no empathy for original software authors in the Python "community".
"getmail6" is also name squatting on PyPI under the name "getmail":

   https://pypi.org/project/getmail/

It is installed by using "pip install getmail".


I found it very easy to submit a patch to you. If people aren't following
your requests, they aren't serious about contributing changes back to the
real getmail code base.

People are also underestimating the 2to3 trickery. getmail has to deal
with unicode, file system encoding, ssl and all things that make a robust
conversion difficult.

getmail is a high quality code base, so it isn't just a matter of running
the conversion tool and beating things into shape.


I hope you do the conversion yourself, or rewrite it in Go, Java, OCaml etc. :-)



Stefan Krah