Re: running viewmail under emacs 29.3

[Mark Diekhans]

Hi Peter,

My branch does not include Stefan's work and I know there are a
couple of remaining problems with emacs compile.

I am out of the country this week, but could work with you
starting next week.  I was going to convert the entire bzr tree
to get the history and then merge in patches.

Mark

peter.julien.rayner@gmail.com <peter.julien.rayner@gmail.com> writes:
> 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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