Re: Bug#352535: ITP: gitmail -- Very simple graphical mail user agent for sending mail (GTK)
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> writes:
> On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, Ron Johnson wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 03:35 -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote:
>> > On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 10:07:45AM +0200, Jari Aalto wrote:
>> > > Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> writes:
>> > >
>> > > > On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 01:16 +0200, Jari Aalto wrote:
>> > > >>
>> > > >> The speciality is the small size + GUI to send mail. Useful for
>> > > >> low end harware (166Mhz / 64 M mem).
>> > > >
>> > > > But that's just it. It's for *sending* mail only. What is the
>> > > > purpose of a GUI for sending mail?
>> > >
>> > > The small memory footprint. In minimalistic Window manager +
>> > > minimalistic program to send mail.
>> >
>> > Err, who uses GTK when "small memory footprint" or "minimalistic"
>> > are objectives?
>>
>> XFce is lighter than GNOME.
>>
>> And writing in GTK is (supposed to be) easier that writing Xlib.
>
> Which's the reason you use xaw. But in this case, it is a simple X-based
> form plugged to broken crap that needs to be replaced, and which could well
> be replaced by a call to sendmail. Thus, you don't even need C code, just a
> tcl/tk script.
Not so fast. If the light weight system is to be kept as small as
possible, the additional tcl/Tk libraries would not be welcomed.
GTK at least is common to most of the C programs that do not bring
along other libraries.
The programs talks directly to SMTP, so there is no need to require
a MTA in the system.
Upstream is interested in getting the program in better shape based on
the malloc-discussion here.
Jari
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