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Re: Claws-mail and HTML



On Wed, 07 May 2014 06:52:43 -0400
Greg Troxel <gdt%ir.bbn.com@localhost> wrote:

> > Although minimal, the dillo viewer plugin used to work fine for me,
> > especially that I seldom receive HTML-only mail; it's still better than
> > having to read HTML as-is...  This plugin was removed with a comment
> > about it being deprecated.  If there is no alternative, and I manage to
> > make it work, would it be accepted again in the official tree?
> 
> I don't know about the details of claws/dillo.  In general, we don't
> have a requirement that software in pkgsrc be maintained upstream.  If
> we did, we'd have to delete probably a thousand packages.  Generally the
> question is whether the usefulness to pkgsrc users from some particular
> software being in pkgsrc outweighs the maintenance pain of the package
> existing, and that's not a terribly high bar.

I'll try to ressucitate the old package then, if it works I'll submit
it to WIP for review.

Thanks,
-- 
Matt


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