Re: [PATCH] cli/lib: remove support for GMime 2.4

Subject: Re: [PATCH] cli/lib: remove support for GMime 2.4

Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2015 10:28:44 +0200

To: Tomi Ollila, David Bremner, notmuch@notmuchmail.org

Cc:

From: Daniel Kahn Gillmor


On Sun 2015-08-16 21:53:36 +0200, Tomi Ollila wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 16 2015, David Bremner <david@tethera.net> wrote:
>
>> It's becoming a maintenance burden to do anything things with the
>> crypto glue code twice, once for 2.4 and once for 2.6. I don't have
>> any 2.4 version available to test on my development machine anymore,
>> so the 2.4 specific code paths are likely not very well tested.
>> ---
>>
>> I started to rebase the SMIME signature verification patches and got
>> aggravated at solving the same conflicts twice in every file.
>>
>> 2.6.7 is from 2012, so that's a bit newer than some of our
>> requirements, but I think not so bad. YMMV.
>
> Perhaps it is time for me to update to gmime 2.6 in this machine. PITA ;/

Please do, i think gmime 2.4 is really not well-supported upstream any
more either.

     --dkg

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