Re: [PLUG] Linux Journal Readers' choice awards 2013
Can you elaborate what moving with times means? Tools of the newer times make me no more productive than those of yesteryear, so I don't see much a point. It was a generic remark - may or may not apply in the context of mutt - hence the Disclaimer at the end of my original email Anyway, let me try to elaborate further. Since we are talking generic the situation may or may not apply in your case. When choosing a tool, I typically check when was the last active development. If my requirement is low enough - something that isn't updated in few years might also work for me now but when I need a security update, and no one is maintaining it, I am out of luck (I know, open source, fix it yourself, but honestly just because one has access to source, doesn't mean one has skills to fix) In this scenario - I might be better off with something that is actively being developed (Doesn't mean bleeding edge, cause it has different problems) That is what I meant by moving with times On a lighter note - Original comment was in the context of feeling like part of museum. If you feel productive with your current set of tools, then you shouldn't feel ancient/part of museum/endangered specie. What am I missing ? -Mandar ___ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List
Re: [PLUG] Linux Journal Readers' choice awards 2013
On Tue, Jan 07, 2014 at 05:20:51PM +0530, Mandar Vaze / ? ??? wrote: If you feel productive with your current set of tools, then you shouldn't feel ancient/part of museum/endangered specie. What am I missing ? No I was not feeling ancient/museum/endangered. If you read my mail it was about a perception about people who use such platforms. The remark was in the context of mutt's %share being very low. If you ask me, I really don't care about usage % etc. Yes, I do keep reasserting my platforms for suitability for changing usage patterns, improvising for information management. If something necessitates so I'll change my platforms. But it has not happened in many years, though things done by me around the platforms keep evolving. Mayuresh ___ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List
Re: [PLUG] Linux Journal Readers' choice awards 2013
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 5:20 PM, Mandar Vaze / मंदार वझे mandarv...@gmail.com wrote: When choosing a tool, I typically check when was the last active development. If my requirement is low enough - something that isn't updated in few years might also work for me now but when I need a security update, and no one is maintaining it, I am out of luck (I know, open source, fix it yourself, but honestly just because one has access to source, doesn't mean one has skills to fix) Mutt does have activity. At least https://github.com/karelzak/mutt-kz has. Applications are as good as the design decisions which result in their development. If someone finds that that new fangled applications are not providing enough merit to switchover, the possible reason might be that the decisions of design and user experience are something that does not meet this user's requirement. That happens all the time and, there's not much achieved by boiling the ocean. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan ___ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List
