Re: running viewmail under emacs 29.3

[peter.julien.rayner]

Just a quick note to say that the branch:
>  bzr+ssh://markd-kermodei@bazaar.launchpad.net/~markd-kermodei/vm/vm-emacs-28/
configured, made and ran out of the box under 29.3. I've not checked
the impact of Mark's other changes nor whether this includes or
obviates Stefan's cleanups but   we have a potential base to work
from. If noone else steps up in a week I'll open a repo for this
version and look to integrate existing patches. A warning that if I do
this it will be github; that might stimulate others to offer to manage
on their preferred host.
Thanks again all for a wonderful tool.
regards
Peter
>
>However, I think whatever is left of the VM community needs to
>figure out if we want to breath new life into VM or let it join
>the crypt of yesterdays great software.
>
>Personally, I love VM, but the compatibility issues, as well as
>not scaling to modern email volume, is increasingly problematic.
>While I would be happy to be part of a community to resurrect
>and modernize VM, I just don't have bandwidth to be developing
>my own email client.
>
>If anyone is interested, lets start a conversation.  VM is an
>amazing pieces of software.  We might be able to attract others
>if we can seed a modern approach to collaborative development.
>
>Cheers
>Mark
>
>Stefan Monnier via General discussion of VM mail reader 
><viewmail-info@nongnu.org> writes:
>> > A naive attempt to clone from https://github.com/emacsorphanage/vm/
>> > and run failed.  I've been running a version from the bzr repo under
>> > 29.0.50.
>> 
>> [ Hmm... 29.3 or the obsolete 29.0.50?  ]
>> 
>> > A few questions:
>> > - Am I starting from the right repo or is there a more recent version?
>> > - Are others running successfully in the case I'm trying?
>> > - Does any of the experienced maintainers have a sense of how hard this 
>> > will
>> >   be to fix?  I'm willing to try it but would like an estimate of 
>> > difficulty
>> >   and time.
>> 
>> Check the latest thread in this mailing-list, under the subject
>> 
>>     vm, emacs 28.2 (debian), urls in minibuffer
>> 
>> where I sent a "cleanup" patch to help get the code closer to modern
>> ELisp.  John Stoffel gave up on trying to make it work, but I don't
>> think it's should be very hard.  I don't use VM myself, but I'm quite
>> experienced in fixing those kinds of things and would be glad to provide
>> guidance.  Maybe you can team with John?
>> 
>> 
>>         Stefan
>> 
>> 
>

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