Re: GNUMail app and gmail

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,

On 2017-12-14 20:33:19 +0100 Daniel Santos <daniel.dlds@gmail.com> 
wrote:

> My distribution is raspbian (from retropie project)
> The versions of the software are (from the package manager):
>     - gnustep                            7.8
>     - gnustep-back-common                0.24.0-4
>     - gnustep-back0.24                    0.24.0-4
>     - gnustep-back0.24-cairo                0.24.0-4
>     - gnustep-base-common                1.24.7-1
>     - gnustep-base-runtime                1.24.7-1
>     - gnustep-common                    2.6.6-3
>     - gnustep-core-devel                    7.8
>     - gnustep-core-doc                    7.8
>     - gnustep-devel                        7.8
>     - gnustep-gui-common                0.24.0-3
>     - gnustep-gui-doc                    0.24.0-3
>     - gnustep-gui-runtime                    0.24.0-3
>     - gnustep-icons                        1.0-5
>     - gnustep-make                        2.6.6-3
>     - gnustep-make-doc                    2.6.6-3

0.24 is a bit old, we had 0.25 for quite some time and 0.26 is now 
just out (but cannot be build until we release also base.
However, I don't remember we fied such grave bugs, but maybe Fred or 
Ivan may remember better. In other words, I did not make changes into 
GNUMail from the times of 0.24 that should stop it working.

>     - gcc-4.4                            4.4.7-4
>     - make                            4.0-8.1
>     - libff6                            3.1-2
>     - libcairo2                            1.14.0-2.1+deb8u2

I think that is quite fine.

I have two ARM setups: A raspberry PI with NetBSD and a PI 3 with 
Raspbian like you.
However, on both I built GNUstep from source.
On both GNUMail displays fine.


> I built the GNUMail version 1.2.3 from the webpage.
> BTW is there a publicly available version control system with the code
> (readonly) ?

There are only minor cosmetic fixes since 1.2.3 IIRC, however look 
here:

https://savannah.nongnu.org/svn/?group=gnustep-nonfsf

You can also just checkout frameworks/pantomime and apps/gnumail


> I will uninstall all this and try to build from source, despite the 
> problem
> I found on debian 9 (intel), see my other email.

As said, I can build on Rasbian from scratch gnustep with GCC without 
issues.


You mentioned having a Mac, what OS? you can run gnumail on it. I can 
build GNUMail on 10.4, 10.5 and 10.6. I can run it on 10.7, but 
currently not build it, also I can build on 10.4 a 10.3 compatible 
version, but not build on 10.3... It runs perfectly both on PPC and 
Intel, so the code is reasonably portable, until it remains 32bit 
only, there is esplicit a block in pantomime against 64bit I have not 
investigated.


Thank for you interest

Riccardo

PS: yesterday I replied you from GNUMail on Gentoo, Today on 10.5 
intel! Power of GNUMail!
I wonder, if you set it up, if you can send mails fine. I have certain 
issues on GNUstep which I do not have consistent on Mac.