#52297: mutt @1.6: make it obsolete in favor of neomutt ----------------------------------+-------------------------------- Reporter: leonardo.schenkel@… | Owner: macports-tickets@… Type: enhancement | Status: closed Priority: Normal | Milestone: Component: ports | Version: 2.3.4 Resolution: fixed | Keywords: Port: mutt | ----------------------------------+-------------------------------- Comment (by leonardo.schenkel@…): Hi Vkuznet, I am sympathetic to your concerns. However, I think your concerns are more theoretical than real. NeoMutt is supposed to be a strict superset of Mutt, so all features in Mutt are present in NeoMutt and they have not been changed in any way. What NeoMutt does have is additional features that Mutt still does not have (but the intent of the project is to upstream all patches) — if you don't use them you won't even know they're there because they should be invisible to you. NeoMutt for you should work the same as vanilla Mutt 1.7. Note that other `mutt` packages such as the one in Debian incorporate a number of patches, including many from NeoMutt. I believe most distros don't provide vanilla Mutt because it didn't have any stable release for a long time — development has just been picked up this year. This does not seem to affect or break most people's workflow. Of course, nothing is perfect and there may be something in NeoMutt that breaks things for you. Please try it out and let us know if there are any. With that information in hand we'll be more informed to make future decisions. To alleviate some of your concerns, I do plan in the future to add more variants to `neomutt` and allow disabling all patches that can be disabled by the configure script. Hopefully that will make the resulting build close enough to vanilla Mutt to make more users happy. I would like to stress that this level of configuration is not available in many distros and it does not seem to be a problem in practice — and once again, even with all patches enabled NeoMutt should not diverge from Mutt if you're only using features present in Mutt. Please do report if it's not the case. -- Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/52297#comment:7> MacPorts <https://www.macports.org/> Ports system for macOS