pine for FC9

[Bill Davidsen]

Robert Holtzman wrote:
> On Sat, 4 Oct 2008, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> 
>> edwardspl at ita.org.mo wrote:
>>> Dear All,
>>>
>>> Do you know where can we d/l the pine rpm package for FC9 ?
>>
>> Livna but it is obsoleted by Alpine which is under a free and open 
>> source (Apache) license.
> 
> The University of Washington has dropped development of Alpine and laid 
> off most, if not all, of the developers. Check the Alpine mailing list 
> archives.
> 
What's your point? The source is still available, the license is okay, why don't 
you want to use it?

This is not a fast moving target, I ran one version I built from old source on 
various machines for almost a decade. If there's a real need for fixes I suppose 
it will move to sourceforge or similar, otherwise it's in a bunch of 
distributions and usable as is.

I'm not sure there was a need for development other than a load of creeping 
featurism, it is what it is and does well those things it does at all.

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