Brett Randall wrote:
What do you know... The latest version works perfectly. Can't believe Debian Etch ships with such an old piece of software!
That's the nature of the beast I would think. The debian stable release is not called stable without reason. I expect that at the time of creating the newest stable, etch, that specific version of uw-imap was the stable version, known to work (and it IS stable).
I'd rather run somewhat older software known to work and be stable and cooperate with the rest of the system, installed with a sane package manager, than having to configure and compile many source releases. I have been there (linux from scratch for example) and while it is fun and you learn a lot you can hit some nasty obstacles. Think having to recompile everything on your system because your version of the c-library is 2 minor releases (x.xx.1 instead of x.xx.3 or such ;-) too old to run or even compile firefox for example (and a number of other necessary apps). Well I could compile firefox by fooling it to think libc was the newer version but then it had subtle and annoying bugs.
Anyways sorry for the partially off-topic rant. :-) Regards, Jeroen _______________________________________________ Imap-uw mailing list [email protected] https://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/imap-uw
