That really seems like overkill. Also, none of those scripts are
regularly tested, or even supported. I would much rather see those
copied into /usr/local/share/nmh/contrib, with a post install note
pointing out that directory.
They might not be tested nmh-workers, but I expect we are all eating our
own dog food. After all, the contributions were made because they scratched
an itch. Possibly more of an issue is the contributions following out of
sync with updates. Perhaps a note should be included with each pointing
to any official project page/other source for the latest and greatest?
So, to provide some history ...
"contrib" came in being because of replyfilter. It sort of sits apart
from nmh; it's a hack, but a useful one that filled a need (that we
haven't quite solved natively). It also required functionality that
nmh had to add. It's a bit of an odd duck, really. Other programs came
a bit later. The commonality here is that all of these things are simple
one-file items that it's not worth setting up a distribution for.
So where's the line between creating a pointer to an external package
and including the package in nmh? I'm not sure. MIME-Tools is a bit
on the edge; it's more than one file, but not very big. FWIW, I'd be
glad to put an entry on the nmh homepage about it.
--Ken
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