Just a quick note to say that the branch: > bzr+ssh://[email protected]/~markd-kermodei/vm/vm-emacs-28/ configured, made and ran out of the box under 29.3. I've not checked the impact of Mark's other changes nor whether this includes or obviates Stefan's cleanups but we have a potential base to work from. If noone else steps up in a week I'll open a repo for this version and look to integrate existing patches. A warning that if I do this it will be github; that might stimulate others to offer to manage on their preferred host. Thanks again all for a wonderful tool. regards Peter > >However, I think whatever is left of the VM community needs to >figure out if we want to breath new life into VM or let it join >the crypt of yesterdays great software. > >Personally, I love VM, but the compatibility issues, as well as >not scaling to modern email volume, is increasingly problematic. >While I would be happy to be part of a community to resurrect >and modernize VM, I just don't have bandwidth to be developing >my own email client. > >If anyone is interested, lets start a conversation. VM is an >amazing pieces of software. We might be able to attract others >if we can seed a modern approach to collaborative development. > >Cheers >Mark > >Stefan Monnier via General discussion of VM mail reader ><[email protected]> writes: >> > A naive attempt to clone from https://github.com/emacsorphanage/vm/ >> > and run failed. I've been running a version from the bzr repo under >> > 29.0.50. >> >> [ Hmm... 29.3 or the obsolete 29.0.50? ] >> >> > A few questions: >> > - Am I starting from the right repo or is there a more recent version? >> > - Are others running successfully in the case I'm trying? >> > - Does any of the experienced maintainers have a sense of how hard this >> > will >> > be to fix? I'm willing to try it but would like an estimate of >> > difficulty >> > and time. >> >> Check the latest thread in this mailing-list, under the subject >> >> vm, emacs 28.2 (debian), urls in minibuffer >> >> where I sent a "cleanup" patch to help get the code closer to modern >> ELisp. John Stoffel gave up on trying to make it work, but I don't >> think it's should be very hard. I don't use VM myself, but I'm quite >> experienced in fixing those kinds of things and would be glad to provide >> guidance. Maybe you can team with John? >> >> >> Stefan >> >> >
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