Steffen Nurpmeso <[email protected]> writes:

> Hello!
>
> Jeremie Courreges-Anglas <[email protected]> wrote:
>  |here's an update to the latest release.
>  |Test reports / comments / oks welcome.
>
> This is great, thank you very much for your interest and efforts!
>
>   v14.8+ brings in over six months of fulltime development, and is
>   the first version of the nail/Heirloom mailx/S-nail BSD Mail
>   codebase branch that is capable message roundtripping without
>   causing possible message splitting due to faulty From_ line
>   detection.  v14.8 also had a Coverity.com defect density of
>   0.0 (fwiw).
>
>   And for the first time we start to reap the fruit of all that
>   labour: e.g., it was finally and easily possible to implement
>   and offer a *ssl-method-HOST* variable, where HOST is the
>   address (/port) to connect to.  It was really hard to get there.
>
> Hmhm, sorry for the noise.  ^.^
> But now this.
>
> Please note that any v14.8 including v14.8.2 has a really severe
> file locking bug and should not be used -- i will release v14.8.3
> by the end of the week!

I don't see a valid reason to push for an update until v14.8.3 is out.
(and I am not the maintainer of the port anyway)

> Optionally it is possible to use the attached patch (that was also
> send to the list[1]).  Because i really hack many changes into
> v14.8.3 (the name has to be "Startled Chicken" because of that
> bug) without any forerun -- the opposite of the rest of v14.8! --
> you may prefer this more conservative route instead?
>
>   [1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.mail.s-nail.user/276
>
>  |Note that s-nail gained a few tests since its import in the ports tree.
>
> Yes, dropping NO_TEST is due.  (Tests are still a real dark corner
> beside that, especially expect-fail cases etc.  Sigh.  So to say.)
>
> Btw…  Since OpenBSD ships with -lreadline, how about using
> WANT_READLINE=yes instead of
>
>  |    WANT_EDITLINE=1
>
> since it is so much more comfortable?

I thought that readline and editline proposed more or less the same
features, why would one be more comfortable than the other? (Disclaimer:
apart from a few tests most of my uses of s-nail are non-interactive).

Anyway, since libreadline is under GPLv2+ (base system libreadline) or
GPLv3+ (ports libreadline) I don't think that would be a good move.

> Otherwise the builtin
> command line editor may be worth looking at, but maybe without
> tabulator expansion (WANT_TABEXPAND=no) to not use wordexp(3).
> Yes, it is simple since it lets the terminal deal with the line
> (instead of implementing a visible viewpoint like e.g. ksh(1)),
> but i think doing so is still more comfortable than editline(3),
> especially regarding history handling.  Just a suggestion.

I'll leave that discussion to others. :)

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