[Alpine-info] justification in alpine

[Eduardo Chappa]

On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Lucio Chiappetti wrote:


:) Pretty sure I never compiled pine recently (since I left Tru64 for 

:) Linux). My pine was the standard SuSE 9.2 bundle. It identifies itself 

:) as "Pine 4.61 built Mon Oct 4 15:47:58 UTC 2004 on f44" (pine 

:) -supported does not say anything about patches).


Makes sense. Suse distributes my patches as part of the Pine package. I 
believe they will also do this as part of Alpine 1.XY and SuSe 11.0.

The -supported option does not refer to patches, but to drivers and access 
methods. I do leave a mark in one of my patches (one that integrates all 
patches in my page), so that a user can recognize that is using a patched 
version of Alpine, but individual patches (like the one I mentioned to 
you) do not leave such mark. One can know that is running a fully patched 
version of Alpine from the command line by running "alpine -version", or 
by pressing "M R" and see the notice in the release notes.

-- 
Eduardo
http://staff.washington.edu/chappa/alpine/