[email protected] wrote: >Alternatively, the package is LGPL, so why not include it with nmh? It's not >obvious where people should acquire liblockfile, as there is no official site >for it, and distro's often add weird deps. Luckily debian's 1.08-3 works.
The trouble is that part of the point of liblockfile is "do whatever this distro/OS/etc requires for locking the mailspool". As far as I know it's not possible to autodetect this, and shipping a library which did the wrong kind of locking would be even worse. Sadly very few OSes or distros actually document what the locking strategy for the mailspool is, let alone providing system libraries which do it right for you. It might be interesting to see what approach other more popular MUAs (eg mutt?) take to this configuration problem; although I think nmh is technically doing the right thing in punting the problem to the person building the program it does cause a lot of user confusion. -- PMM _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
