Thus spake Ken Hornstein:
While I don't disagree with you, we have to face facts here.
The sad truth is that MH/nmh development effort has been ... well, I guess
the kindest way to say it is "lacking" lately. And by "lately", you could
measure that timespan in years. The basic problem is that we simply don't
have a large enough community of people who are willing to do the programming
that it would take to add the requested features to nmh. I have seen it
countless times here: plenty of people here are interested in IMAP support
in nmh, but they lack the programming skill to implement it. The people
who have such skill lack the time or interest to do so (there is a small
core of whiny diehards who continue to complain that you cannot implement
obscure nmh feature <x> when using IMAP; those people should be ignored).
I don't see this situation changing anytime soon. Unless, Lyndon, _you_
are volunteering to implement IMAP for nmh the "right" way. Are you? No?
Didn't think so.
A comment on the state of development: I use nmh for all of my mail. I
also am one of the core developers for another open-source project, one
which desperately needs more developers and developer-hours. So, despite
my total reliance on nmh, I probably won't contribute any development time
to it unless we reach a state where there's something I need nmh to do
which it can't do, because every development hour I spend on nmh is not
spent on a project which I deem needs it worse.
(Similar things could be said about Vim. In the extraodinarily unlikely
event that it started to loook like Only I Can Save Vim, then I'd be
compelled to suck it up and contribute some development time there.)
So, from my point of view, it's a story of things getting worse before
they can get better. (On the other hand, my project has had two new
devs volunteer in the past week, for no cause that I can see other than
sheer interest, so maybe that will happen here, too...)
--
J.
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