At 3:09 PM -0500 2004-11-05, Stewart Dean wrote:
What I was attempting to express was/is my frustration at a beautiful application with many good feature, responsive development, etc., etc.... that is missing the boat with the fundamental issue of maintenance and updating. It is like the guy who builds an exquisite power boat in the basement...but with no way to get it out of the basement.
Mailman is an open source project. We will be glad to receive any contributions you may care to make to help us work towards this goal.
I'd think it wouldn't have taken any longer to design the GNU packaging tools and process to build single-binary, host-portable output. A lot of thought has gone into Mailman...a little more into in packaging would have boosted its acceptance enormously
You really should read the Mailman FAQ entries at <http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=index>. Pay special attention to question 4.55.
Gnu and Linux are not the only operating systems or tool environments where Mailman is expected to run. We don't ship binaries. We ship source code. If you want a nice and clean binary installation which adheres to whatever your views are regarding where things should be installed, then you should be looking to your OS vendor for a binary package.
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