Re: [ProgSoc] Pine

[Nicholas FitzRoy-Dale <wzdd@nospam.lardcave.net>]

At 4:54pm on the 17th of April, Matt wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 04:28:31PM +1000, Nicholas FitzRoy-Dale wrote:

> ok, as long as you package stuff according to debians standards no
> probs :)

Cool.

> > We are running UW IMAP 4.7.
>
> ugh, whats the license on that thing like?

Based on /usr/share/doc/imap/copyright on ftoomsh, it looks BSDish. Ooh, and
this version of IMAP also supports Maildir. I recommend we mandate that
too. All-out mail reform! ;-) Kidding. I just think we should keep pine, and
not nag about it.

> > It goes on to say you may use locally modified copies as long as
> > they are marked as such, and you may distribute Pine as long as you
> > don't charge anything more than a copying fee for it (to
> > paraphrase).
>
> ok, so does that mean you'll flash up a splash screen telling pine
> users that they are using a modified version of pine?

I'm not entirely sure what the Debian people wanted to modify in the Pine
source. The unmodified source compiles and runs fine both on ftoomsh and on
my home (x86) box. Either way, modified versions have to have an "L" on the
end of the version number, and the documentation and release notes have to
say what I did. No big deal.

> well as long as configuration files dont have a problem running on
> different versions, then no probs. does it handle MSB/LSB and ILP-32
> and LP-64 stuff issues properly (for data as well as code)?

I don't know for the newer versions but unless they've broken something I
think we can assume it does, because 4.21 is running fine on Progsoc boxen
already.

> i suspect your chances of use running a non setgid mail spool are
> low. so it would seem an email is the way to go.

*nod*

> > Anyway this is all moot because I don't have the permissions to do anything
> > yet. ;)
>
> ack, i would suspect that would require anand's blessing..

Anand, where does your blessing fall?

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