Dear Ken, In message <[email protected]> you wrote: > >I have decided to learn the MH system and use it for all my > >(non-professional) email needs. > > From what I understand, there are two different modern-day incarnations > >of MH: nmh and GNU mailutils. > >I need your advice because I can't make up my mind on which to choose. > >Since I have to learn from scratch, and it will entail some serious > >investment of time, I would like to be sure I make the right choice. > > So, this is a bit of an awkward question, because we're kind of > competitors. Our relationship with the GNU Mailutils people is ... > well, I wouldn't call it "friendly" competition, because mostly we don't > interact. This isn't out of any animosity (at least not on our end, and > AFAICT on Sergey's end). We're all busy, these are part-time projects, > and I personally think it's a dick move to go and trash your competitor > in public. I never see any messages from Sergey trashing nmh, so I'm > assuming he feels the same way. I'd rather people look at the projects > objectively and make their own decision based on their needs and > requirements. Obviously the developers of a project are biased toward > the implementation they're working on. So I would say our stance toward > each other is "polite awareness".
I'm just a user of nmh (as workhorse for exmh) and not involved with the development of either nmh nor GNU mailutils. In such an "external" position I usually find it quite informative to look at the project statistics for example collected by Oloh [1]; you can find the data for nmh at [2] and those for GNU mailutils at [3] [1] http://www.ohloh.net [2] http://www.ohloh.net/p?ref=homepage&q=nmh [3] http://www.ohloh.net/p?ref=homepage&q=mailutils Short comparison of the Oloh data: nmh GNU mailutils ------------------------------------------------------------------- lines of code 163K 164K current contributors 6 1 activity high very low Total Summary: ... 2,221 commits ... 6,913 commits made by 35 contributors made by 13 contributors Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: [email protected] Never underestimate the power of human stupidity when it comes to using technology they don't understand. _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
