[Alpine-info] compatibility question

[Dan Mahoney, System Admin]

On Thu, 22 Apr 2010, David Morris wrote:


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> On Thu, 22 Apr 2010, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:

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>> They'd probably get the welcome to alpine greeting screen the first time,

>> which you could quell globally.  Other than that, I've found it to be mostly

>> the same.

>

> But not same enough to pretent it isn't new ... date format default is

> different in mail index.  Also, it appears that the default is to rename

> sent-mail rather than prompt. I have very limited alpine experience as

> when it first came out, it wouldn't build/install on my system. Recently

> installed on a test server.


Sadly, changelog doesn't summarize it well enough to cover all this.

Any upgrade of a product (say from 4.0 to 4.64) will introduce changes. 
As far as I know, there's no universal list of "to make alpine act exactly 
like pine, do XXX" because you're in essence disabling useful 
functionality that people have tried hard to make work.

That said, my *most* notable change in Alpine was the fact that the 
"Opening folder" animations appeared.  (And there's no way to quelch them 
AFAIK).

It's a two line shell script to email every user on your system who uses 
pine, and email them a heads-up.  It's also trivial to rename pine to 
old-pine or whatever so it can "just work" for those people who feel a 
loss.

-Dan

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