Dear Ken,
In message
<201402122353(_dot_)s1CNr2Zh015109(_at_)hedwig(_dot_)cmf(_dot_)nrl(_dot_)navy(_dot_)mil>
you wrote:
I have decided to learn the MH system and use it for all my
(non-professional) email needs.
From what I understand, there are two different modern-day incarnations
of MH: nmh and GNU mailutils.
I need your advice because I can't make up my mind on which to choose.
Since I have to learn from scratch, and it will entail some serious
investment of time, I would like to be sure I make the right choice.
So, this is a bit of an awkward question, because we're kind of
competitors. Our relationship with the GNU Mailutils people is ...
well, I wouldn't call it "friendly" competition, because mostly we don't
interact. This isn't out of any animosity (at least not on our end, and
AFAICT on Sergey's end). We're all busy, these are part-time projects,
and I personally think it's a dick move to go and trash your competitor
in public. I never see any messages from Sergey trashing nmh, so I'm
assuming he feels the same way. I'd rather people look at the projects
objectively and make their own decision based on their needs and
requirements. Obviously the developers of a project are biased toward
the implementation they're working on. So I would say our stance toward
each other is "polite awareness".
I'm just a user of nmh (as workhorse for exmh) and not involved with
the development of either nmh nor GNU mailutils. In such an "external"
position I usually find it quite informative to look at the project
statistics for example collected by Oloh [1]; you can find the data
for nmh at [2] and those for GNU mailutils at [3]
[1] http://www.ohloh.net
[2] http://www.ohloh.net/p?ref=homepage&q=nmh
[3] http://www.ohloh.net/p?ref=homepage&q=mailutils
Short comparison of the Oloh data:
nmh GNU mailutils
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lines of code 163K 164K
current contributors 6 1
activity high very low
Total Summary: ... 2,221 commits ... 6,913 commits
made by 35 contributors made by 13 contributors
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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