From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: marka@pobox.com (Mark Alexander) Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 11:29:51 -0700 Subject: [sup-talk] preparing for 0.7 In-Reply-To: <1237224356-sup-1941@entry> References: <1237224356-sup-1941@entry> Message-ID: On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 10:27 AM, William Morgan wrote: > I've prepared master for an 0.7 release. If you get a chance, please try > it out and let me know if there's anything obviously broken. The changes > I'm most excited about are the Ferret locking (so hopefully no more > index corruption) and being able to type long answers to Sup's > questions. Thanks! I'm trying it now. Last month I discovered sup and attempted to use it in a serious way as a replacement for mutt. I fed it around 10000 messages that I had in my ~/Maildir and tried to use it for several days. But I kept running into ferret-related crashes every few minutes, so I abandoned the effort and went back to mutt. I wasn't willing to give up completely, though, and started to investigate the idea of replacing ferret with Sphinx (yes, I know about the Sup-As-Service project, but I was impatient). I didn't get too far with that, though (lack of time, mainly). Sphinx is a pain, frankly, and I was racking my brains for ways of dealing sanely with the incremental indexing, the matching of message IDs with Sphinx IDs, and the XML interface. So I'm really glad to see the new release and hope the ferret-related bugs are gone. So far things look good. It's lasted lots longer than it did before, but I'm feeling cautious and will run it for a few more days before considering moving away from mutt full-time. --Mark