FWIW, I used to be a "roll-my-own" exim user. But as once decent rpm's and other packaged versions came along I moved across to those, usually making some changes to the .spec file to suit my needs (especially once Fedora dropped support for SA-Exim.....)
If I was still roll-my-own, I'd nevertheless support this move. Mike John Jetmore wrote: > On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Nigel Metheringham wrote: > >> How many systems actually don't have PCRE available as a system library >> - for heavens sake its even in Solaris (SUNWpcre package) - and they >> have a 1980s runtime. > > I was going to mention the Solaris 2.5.1 box I have Exim on. But I just > remembered I was finally allowed to decom that box a month ago, which > fills me with great joy. > > I'm not going to put up a fight here - I acknowledge this will reduce the > strain on packagers (since they won't have to maintain their own patches > to use an external library) and will generally be a win for people who use > distribution packages for everything. I don't do this but my intention > was not to complain about work to me, but to the userbase as a whole. > > I'm not convinced of Exim's use demographics, but if you guys (who are > doing the real work) feel that this is truly a win for the majority of the > users and not just pushing developer work off to end users then I can > accept that. > > Thanks > --John > -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-dev Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ##
