Re: Removing offlineimap?

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

Andrew Randrianasulu <randrianasulu%gmail.com@localhost> writes:

>> Why did you import offlineimap3 instead of just updating offlineimap?
>> We generally only have multiple versions when there is a good reason,
>> and if it's expected that users can generally just update, then not
>> having multiple versions is better.
>
> As user, I really dislike when proga M just suddenly changes all their
> configs, command line switches, drops support for  some hardware, drops
> support for some data format, changes API for maximum damage,  and all this
> disaster nicely packaged and fired directly at me, from more than one
> direction.

Me to, but

  rants about upstream should be directed to upstream

  have you read the offlineimap docs/code (perhaps asking them to
  clarify) and do you believe that it was is happening here?  Or is this
  just a generality not grounded in the present situation?