[pmmail-list] Interest in New Edition of PMMail

[Walter F. Metcalf]

On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 18:22:07 +0100 (MEZ), L.Willms wrote:

>On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 14:51:16 -0500 (EST), Walter F. Metcalf wrote:
>

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>> Before VOICE commits to this project, which could be costly and 
>developer-intensive, at least in the short term, we want to get a 
>> slightly better idea of the usage and interest in PMMail for OS/2, so=
 
>we have created a poll to determine this.
>
>   Why should it be costly? There is this Sourceforge project for makin=
g 
>PMMail/2 an open source project -- or it was: I just did a search on 
>Sourceforge.org for PMMail, but that only turned out a "PMMail 
>archiver". 
>
>   So that means that the current owners of the PMMail source were 
>resolved to give the PMMail source to the public for free, 

I think the owner may have changed his mind.

That's the main reason for the "costly".  I very recently asked the curr=
ent owner to donate the product to VOICE, but instead he wants to sell i=
t.  ;-(


and I think 
>this is the way to be pursued. I remember that several people writing o=
n 
>this list have voiced interest in contributing work towards improving 
>PMMail after it is made into open source. 
>
>   And PMMail really does need a big overhaul, not only for adding some=
 
>more charsets (which should be made in a way that those could be added =

>by users in form of a plugin), but most importantly, the MIME 
>implementation needs a complete rewrite, if I am not mistaken. 
>
>   OTOH, I think that it would be wrong to just revamp the OS/2 version=
 
>and let the Windows version rot and go bust. One should try to unify th=
e 
>sources and try to do that in such a way that this product can also be =

>implemented on Linux and Mac. 

That's not out of the question, but we haven't  discussed it yet.

 

>
>
>Yours, 
>L=81ko Willms
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>Frankfurt/Main  
>
>

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Walter F. Metcalf
VOICE Vice-President
Warpdoctor Co-ordinator
walter dot os2 at rogers dot com
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