On 28/11/2017 16:38, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
The alpine package does not seem to be maintained any more. It was
originally developed by the University of Washington but they say they
no longer distribute it.
The url we are using says: "Website is temporary sleeping" and they
want the owner to upgrade to a commercial account.
I checked Arch and they point to the same url we are using.
I can point the book's url to one of our copies, but wonder how many
users actually build/use it. I am considering dropping alpine from
the book. We do still have mutt as a text mode email client.
Opinions?
-- Bruce
Looking at history, there used to be Re-alpine in the book, and it was
replaced
with Alpine 6 months ago. Is re-alpine dead too?
Hmmm: from wikipedia:
In August 2013, the re-alpine project official announced the December
21, 2012, release of Re-alpine 2.03, their last official release.
^and:
Since January 2013, Eduardo Chappa has released newer versions of Alpine
from his site.Most majorUnix-like systems currently use this as the
primaryupstream site.On March 17, 2017, Chappa announced the release of
version 2.21.^
I've found nothing about discontinuing alpine.
Anyway, I guess with mutt and heirloom mailx, we are already offering 2
text mail clients. Mailx is light and simple, mutt is more complicated
(but more powerful too). Do we need an intermediate one?
+1 for removing.
Pierre
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