On Thu, Jun 09, 2016 at 06:26:51AM +0000, Franz Fellner wrote: > Gentoo offers live-ebuilds (ebuilds that checkout git with every build). > There is no > offlineimap-live-ebuild in Gentoo main tree ATM, but at least it's possible. > Arch > also offers live-packages for several packages. As I don't use Arch I can't > say if it > offers offlineimap-git.
Oh, yes. I was aware of those. I didn't consider these cases because those setup are not considered stable, AFAIK. Also, both distributions don't package imaplib2 and rely on our bundled version. > I actually use some packages as live-ebuilds, e.g. awesome, compton, neovim, > ... > I closely follow development and do updates from time to time when I know a > fix or a > new feature I want to test has landed. Yes. However, you're expected to know what you do. This is of your own responsability. > But my point was: You never know what the user/distro does! So being explicit > about > the supported versions of offlineimap's DEPS is really important. And that > patching > imaplib2 could result in unwanted/undefined behaviour. Plain true. The more I think about this, the more I'm convinced we should not provide support when imaplib2 is provided by the system. In case of a bug, users would be requested to fetch the vanilla offlineimap and test. -- Nicolas Sebrecht _______________________________________________ OfflineIMAP-project mailing list: [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/offlineimap-project OfflineIMAP homepages: - https://github.com/OfflineIMAP - http://offlineimap.org
