Re: Pine/PC-Pine 4.64 update?

On Sun, 28 Oct 2007, Barry Landy wrote:

} Why not wait for Alpine - (almost) completely Pine compatible and is 
} after all really Pine 5.

While that is good and all, Alpine is not even considered beta software 
yet, according to http://www.washington.edu/alpine/. While I will gladly 
test software, there is no way I will risk alpha/beta software with 
e.mail. I find e.mail to be too valuable to risk testing new apps on it. 
I'll gladly make a new user account, and have all mail copied to it so I 
can test apps out, but for general use, Pine, stable, is what I use. If 
bugs are being fixed in Alpine that are not being backported to Pine, that 
seems a bit odd. 

I would personally say that Pine should be moved out of the way/not 
maintained once Alpine has gone to production [eg: not alpha or beta]. I 
know the developers are doing this on their own time, so I don't expect 
new features in Pine 4.x, but bug fixes and security fixes, if there 
indeed there is the need for them, should be made available for Pine 
users.

/vjl/

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