Thomas Cameron: >> I'm reading articles saying procmail is dangerous and unmaintained >> (https://anarc.at/blog/2022-03-02-procmail-considered-harmful/). Wolfgang Pfeiffer: > Quote from the page above - seems to be old and, to put it mildly, > wrong: > "procmail is unmaintained. The "Final release", according to > Wikipedia, dates back to September 10, 2001 (3.22)" > > Status today according to > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procmail > Excerpt: > "The software remained unmaintained for several years, and was > believed to be defunct.[3] In 2020 May, Stephen van den Berg resumed > maintenance again.[4] The program has since seen multiple releases and > bug-fixes." I have to ask: Was it really any worse than the alternatives at the time? (And, yes, I did read the blog article. It seems an inflated ego opinion piece, like you find in magazine editorials, designed to stir up a hornets nest more than do anything else.) Everything has bugs, many of which authors (for better or worse) consider to be inconsequential. And just try getting some bugs fixed with some projects, you hit a brickwall of bad attitude. I have many unmaintained things around my house, because they simply work fine as they are. And I know that if I were to tinker with them, I'd cause breakage in different ways. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.105.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Dec 7 15:39:45 UTC 2023 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
