Re: [CSCMail-Users] Pronto/CSCMail

[Count Z. <cou...@cy...>]

Lane Lester was overheared mumbling something about this on 06 Jun 2000
07:04:14 EDT

> I hope it won't be too long until the dust settles and we can see where
>  these
>  two programs stand.

Pronto! and CSCMail have diverged.  I have fixed quite a few bugs in CSCMail
1.7.x and the fixes are available on sourceforge at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/cscmail (Checkout the CVS section, module
cscmail-1.7.x)

Pronto! has incorporated some of my bug fixes, but has also added features, and
possibly fixed other bugs/introduced new ones.	The development of CSCMail
1.7.x and Pronto! has diverged.  I have made it a point to hop into Pronto! and
inform the developers of any major bugs I have fixed in CSCMail 1.7.x because I
am a nice guy.

CSCMail 1.7.x is in feature freeze, and once all bugs seem to be stamped out in
it, I will release CSCMail 1.8.0...  This will be the LAST CSCMail release in
Perl.
  
>  Since I was going to try the C version, I renamed my .cscmail directory to
>  ..cscmailold to get it out of the way. I thought that .pronto had taken over
>  its role.  Wrong!  After fetching the mail, nothing showed up in the message
>  list. When I gave .cscmail its old name back, I =think= I got all my
>  messages
>  back.

CSCMail 1.9.x uses a .cscmailcrc file and doesn't put anything .cscmail at this
time.  Even when it does begin to create its own mail folders, I will make sure
that the filenames and so forth do NOT conflict with the perl versions of
CSCMail.  I am designing these programs to run side by side, especially since
1.9.x is not a viable e-mail client at this time.  No changes to your 1.7.x
setup are required/desired to test out the 1.9.x version.

>  After fetching from CVS, I first noticed that INSTALL was empty. Then
>  configure wouldn't run, and I decided I should read changelog. I finally
>  found the message about autogen.sh and got started. But the process bombed
>  with:
>  checking for gnome-print >= 0.13... not found
>  configure: error: gnome-print 0.13 or later is required to compile CSCMail.

gnome-print requires gnome-xml.  GtkHTML requires gnome-print and gdk-pixbuf
These four modules (gnome-xml, gnome-print, gdk-pixbuf, gtkhtml) are all
available from the helixcode website as tar.gz's

http://www.helixcode.com/apps/evolution-preview/index.php3

>  That turned out to not be a simple download and install, so I've decided to
>  wait for the new Helix-Gnome CD's to get here to try again.

That should get it too! hehe

-Steve