Thus spake Ken Hornstein: > > While I don't disagree with you, we have to face facts here. > > The sad truth is that MH/nmh development effort has been ... well, I guess > the kindest way to say it is "lacking" lately. And by "lately", you could > measure that timespan in years. The basic problem is that we simply don't > have a large enough community of people who are willing to do the programming > that it would take to add the requested features to nmh. I have seen it > countless times here: plenty of people here are interested in IMAP support > in nmh, but they lack the programming skill to implement it. The people > who have such skill lack the time or interest to do so (there is a small > core of whiny diehards who continue to complain that you cannot implement > obscure nmh feature <x> when using IMAP; those people should be ignored). > I don't see this situation changing anytime soon. Unless, Lyndon, _you_ > are volunteering to implement IMAP for nmh the "right" way. Are you? No? > Didn't think so.
A comment on the state of development: I use nmh for all of my mail. I also am one of the core developers for another open-source project, one which desperately needs more developers and developer-hours. So, despite my total reliance on nmh, I probably won't contribute any development time to it unless we reach a state where there's something I need nmh to do which it can't do, because every development hour I spend on nmh is not spent on a project which I deem needs it worse. (Similar things could be said about Vim. In the extraodinarily unlikely event that it started to loook like Only I Can Save Vim, then I'd be compelled to suck it up and contribute some development time there.) So, from my point of view, it's a story of things getting worse before they can get better. (On the other hand, my project has had two new devs volunteer in the past week, for no cause that I can see other than sheer interest, so maybe that will happen here, too...) -- J. _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
