Re: Status of PINE

On Fri, 15 Aug 2008, Bret Busby wrote:

> I am reposting the message below, as the important question of what is the 
> current status of PINE, ALPINE, and IMAP, is unacknowledged and unanswered.

Pine development ceased about three years ago. Pine's successor is Alpine. 
There has been some limited discussion of Alpine's future on the 
alpine-info mailing list

   http://www.washington.edu/alpine/alpine-info/subscribing.html

On that list we recently said:

On Mon, 4 Aug 2008, Steve Hubert wrote:

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Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 11:37:56
From: Steve Hubert <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Alpine-info] alpine status

We will have at least one more release within the next couple weeks, 
probably called Alpine 2.0. It will include the source for Web Alpine 
2.0, which was not included as part of Alpine 1.10.

After that, we plan to continue serving as the primary host for Alpine 
source, but shift our effort from direct development into more of a 
consultation and coordination role to help integrate contributions from 
the community.

University of Washington Alpine team
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