Re: new ver. of balsa?

[Pawel Salek <pawsa theochem kth se>]

On 2001.10.19 15:32 Emmanuel wrote:
> On 2001.10.19 16:39 Asim Zuberi wrote:
> >
> > Folks!
> >
> > When is the new ver. of balsa is going to be released? I think
> > the new release is over due (already!).
> >
> 
> I think we have some issues to take care of before releasing, but Pawel
> could tell us more ;-)
> In fact what BIG BUG prevent new release?

0. One thing that I really wanted to fix but lack of the time stopped me 
was to fix the long-standing bug that prevented using balsa without 
storing IMAP passwords in the configuration file. This is really top item 
on my TODO list but somehow something always hindered me from fixing it. 
Another fix that worries me are relatively frequent reports on crashes in 
reflow_string (search bugzilla for reflow_string in the description): I do 
not know how to reproduce them but I believe they might have something to 
do with non-8-bit charsets.

1. I think I will release 1.2.1 within 1-2 days with a warning that it is 
a feature release, not necessarily a stability improvement. I have 
recently experienced some crashes recently and it is below my stability 
standards (because it is usually the ordinary users that experienced 
crashes, very rarely me). But I think it is important to share what we got 
now in CVS before we move on.

2. There are couple of things that I would like to do in the 1.3.x series 
(and I have impression, many other people as well). A number of things are 
inevitable: we should migrate to gtk+-1.3/2.0 and gnome-vfs, for example. 
We have to consider gconf, few things would become easier if we used it. 
MIME handling bugs me. I consider gmime superior to libmutt but it is not 
that easy to switch, and using gmime in one or two places only does not 
sound appealing to me.

Pawel