Re: [Fetchmail-users] Setting Up OAUTH2 Support for Fetchmail and Postfix

[Matthias A. <mat...@gm...>]

Am 09.10.20 um 23:16 schrieb Ranjan Maitra:
> On Wed, 7 Oct 2020 20:33:13 +0200 Matthias Andree <mat...@gm...> wrote:
>
>> Am 07.10.20 um 19:00 schrieb Ranjan Maitra:
>>> On Wed, 7 Oct 2020 18:39:41 +0200 Matthias Andree <mat...@gm...> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Am 07.10.20 um 06:51 schrieb Ranjan Maitra:
>>>>> According to the site, that may be dated, but fetchmail has oauth2 support from fetchmail7. Will it be available soon?
>>>> Ranjan,
>>>>
>>>> that depends on how leniency of your definition of "soon".
>>>>
>>>> First we will have a 6.5 release branch, and that has not yet happened,
>>>> so I expect that 7.x will be a matter of 2021, but if you are running it
>>>> from the up-to-date "next" branch in Git (available on Gitlab and
>>>> Sourceforge), feel free to file bug reports.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Matthias
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> I have used fetchmail 7 without much of a problem (or something that I have noticed, anyway). Is it possible to backport the patch for oauth2 in the  6.x.x releases? I prefer using the rpms released by the distributions.
>> I am not doing that, and the purpose of the existing 6.x.y branches is
>> compatiblity as we update y and if possibly also when updating x. There
>> may be minor features in 6.5.y.
>>
>> 7.x.y is for major changes.
>>
> So, I was looking at https://sourceforge.net/projects/fetchmail/files/branch_7-alpha/ and here, there has not been an update here since about 2 years ago. Is the git version more up-to-date?
>
Yes it is, and I don't think I will be doing many releases from
development branches before it's release candidate time.
We have Git and we have autoreconf.