Fedora Core 2 wishlists
Tommy Tovbin
tovbin at niisi.msk.ru
Thu Dec 18 14:49:08 UTC 2003
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On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Paul Heinlein writes:
>
> > * I can distribute a binary version of pine if and only if I don't
> > alter the official source release at all.
> >
> > * I can distribute patches alongside the official pine source code,
> > but only in source format.
> >
> > Obviously, Fedora is no place for a package with a restrictive license
> > like that. Still, pine is well known and will continue to be widely
> > used for some time.
>
> You forgot one more bullet point:
>
> Б─╒ Pine does not support UTF-8; neither it is likely to support UTF-8 any
> time soon.
Pine have supported UTF-8 with a little patch. Pine is used by me on my
Fedora and I want to see it on Linux.
>
> That, more than anything else, dooms Pine future on Linux.
>
>
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