Re: NetBSD package news/pan

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Fri, 13 Jun 2008, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:

> It looks like the version in pkgsrc is very old -- from the pan home
> page, it's from August 2003.  Everything later seems to be marked
> "beta", but...  Note in particular the comment on the May 19, 2007
> version: "This release uses significantly less memory on 64-bit
> machines".

Yeah.  And (some of) the new stuff is now written in C++  :)

There's a patch posted against 0.132 beta version, so I'll see if I can 
port it to 0.14.2 released version.  Or maybe I'll just try to generate 
a pkgsrc version from 0.132 - probably more useful in the long run.

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