[neomutt-users] Is now a good time to test master?

Xu Wang xuwang762 at gmail.com
Wed Feb 20 09:15:16 CET 2019


On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 8:21 AM Richard Russon <rich at flatcap.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Xu,
>
> > I am wondering if now is a good time to test master.
>
> Sorry, not really.

No worries. Good to know this information!

> 7 months ago, I decided to try to fix a number of large architectural
> problems in the code.  That work is still going on.  Each time I think
> I'm close, I discover more complications.

You are brave for continuing. Thank you for this!

> > how stable on scales 1 to 10 is current master?
>
> Let's go for a 7.
> Most things should work fine -- we haven't changed much of the 'doing' code.

7 is not bad! hmmm maybe I will try to give it ago.

>
> > I have itches to test, but do not want something extremely unstable.
>
> However a few mailbox actions are known to causes crashes.
> Usually this is when opening a mailbox twice at the same time, e.g.
>
> - Mailbox 'A' Index, Compose, Attach email from Mailbox 'A'
> - Edit an email - temporarily opens second copy of the Mailbox
> - Save email to current directory, e.g. set record='^'
>
> > Thanks to flatcap and others for all of your works!
>
> You're welcome.
>
> Rich / FlatCap

Thanks for such informative response and all of your works.

Kind regards,

Xu


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