Dear list members.
While currently implementing a fully populated character set
database in order to truly be able to deal with the standardized
iconv(3) that unfortunately does not offer normalize() and things
like is_ascii() or such, even though it necessarily ships with all
necessary information internally, i realized that the goal to
release v14.10 (which, unfortunately, is not v15!) this year
will.not.work.out.
Sorry. There is still too much to do, and then you stumble over
such things like this, which takes over a day to implement. And
then you download IETF data and it is totally messed up compared
to an over a decade old version i locally had all this time, since
they seem to killed their tool chain.
More and more features and bug fixes come in (like
freely-configurable message-ids, bracketed-paste mode, massively
improved MIME conformance -- take just this:
$ </dev/null mailx -:/ -Smta=test -Scharset-7bit=iso-2022-jp -s test d@a
Subject: test
User-Agent: mailx v14.9.24
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp
$ </dev/null s-nail -:/ -Smta=test -Scharset-7bit=iso-2022-jp -s test d@a
Subject: =?iso-2022-jp?B?dGVzdA==?=
User-Agent: s-nail v14.9.24-574-g9ad6cbbd93
MIME-Version: 1.0
Sure it was wrong, but that is only the tip of the MIME output
iceberg. I say output, because, unfortunately, the desired MIME
and I/O rewrite of v15 will turn this software into something
truly usable. When i live long enough.)
Sigh! I will not release v14.9.25 even though we have collected
about three dozens or so fixes and tweaks on [master] in the last,
well, almost two years.
I will instead try to release this as fast as possible.
It will be a better program than v14.9.* was.
I wish Christians and anyone else who celebrates it a nice
Christmas time! And i keep on hoping for a good and healthy year
2024 with less wars and a less frantic public discourse.
Ciao until (hopefully not too much) later!
--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)
|
| Only in December: lightful Dubai COP28 Narendra Modi quote:
| A small part of humanity has ruthlessly exploited nature.
| But the entire humanity is bearing the cost of it,
| especially the inhabitants of the Global South.
| The selfishness of a few will lead the world into darkness,
| not just for themselves but for the entire world.
| [Christians might think of Revelation 11:18
| The nations were angry, and your wrath has come[.]
| [.]for destroying those who destroy the earth.
| But i find the above more kind, and much friendlier]
