Re: make mutt the `standard' mail reader
It looks like pine has a pretty loyal following,
in spite of it being handicapped...
Maybe this is the reason why:
(from a quick peek at the BTS ~30 min ago)
number of bugs in ... elm-me+ pine mutt
------- ---- ----
outstanding normal 0 0 7
wishlist 0 1 6
forwarded normal 0 2 9
wishlist 0 2 7
resolved normal 2 0 12
wishlist 0 0 3
--- --- ---
2 5 44
Which one(s) would you look at if you were going to stake your
reputation, or a portion thereof, by recommending a `standard'
piece of software?
- Bruce
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On Sat, 16 Jan 1999, Avery Pennarun wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 16, 1999 at 03:17:00PM +0100, Alexander N. Benner wrote:
>
> > Ship's Log, Lt. Avery Pennarun, Stardate 150199.2326:
> > >
> > > Package Vote Old Recent Unknown
> > > elm-me+ 55 25 45 18
> > > mutt-i 43 16 6 13
> > > mutt 39 4 42 14
> > >
> > > The interesting column is "Vote". "Old" is the number of people who
> > > installed the package but don't use it. "Recent" means the package was
> > > upgraded too recently to be sure.
> >
> > Does that also apply to ppl who used mutt b4 there last update?
> > @least in potato mutt-i is replaced by mutt so you realy have to add both #s
>
> This counts people who have the mutt or mutt-i packages installed; you can't
> have both. Naturally you want to add 43 + 39 = 82 total entries.
>
> > > pine 62 8 3 10
> > ^^^
> > Does that meen that nearly noone is interested in upgrading pine ... ;-)
>
> No... the 8 is people who have installed the pine package, but haven't run
> the binary in a long time. 3 is people who have upgraded pine within the
> last 24 hours or so; this is unusually low for a package, but since you have
> to build pine yourself from sources and they probably release less often,
> it's not too surprising.
>
> Have fun,
>
> Avery
>
>
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later,
Bruce
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