Opened 17 years ago

Closed 13 years ago

Last modified 7 years ago

#2530 closed enhancement (duplicate)

Replace pine with alpine

Reported by: alexander@… Owned by: blfs-book@…
Priority: normal Milestone: x-future
Component: BOOK Version: SVN
Severity: normal Keywords:
Cc:

Description

Right now, BLFS includes Pine plus a big patch that is questionable from a legal viewpoint (because distribution of modified Pine versions is prohibited), but required in order to have a functional Pine in UTF-8 based system. Alpine (http://www.washington.edu/alpine/) is a fork of the last Pine version that didn't have the offending clause in the license, and incorporates this patch and many others. I recommend switching. The page (http://www.suse.de/~bk/pine/FAQ.html) where we got this patch from now says it is deprecated in favor of Alpine.

Change History (7)

comment:1 by dnicholson@…, 17 years ago

+1

I used it briefly in the pre-1.0 days before convincing myself to try mutt again, and it seemed fine. FWIW, I recall reading an interview with Linus Torvalds where he said alpine was his main mail client, and he had nothing but good things to say about it.

comment:2 by willimm, 16 years ago

Me too. And pine is probably no longer maintained. If Linus says nothin' but good things about alpine, it's good.

comment:3 by willimm, 16 years ago

This is a very good canadate for 6.4. I MEAN IT.

comment:4 by ken@…, 14 years ago

NB - development of alpine stopped, but was forked to re-alpinehttp://sourceforge.net/projects/re-alpine/files/ - current version 2.02

comment:5 by Randy McMurchy, 14 years ago

Type: defectenhancement

Changed some tickets from a defect to an enhancement

comment:6 by bdubbs@…, 13 years ago

Resolution: duplicate
Status: newclosed

Marking as duplicate to #3312 because that ticket has the build instructions.

comment:7 by bdubbs@…, 7 years ago

Milestone: futurex-future

Milestone renamed

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