Hi Iain I have just updated my sup installation following your revised Sup-ArchWiki Option 1 with the Patch 55f6b77, and I am happy to say that it worked perfectly; I am now running smoothly with current system Ruby - thanks!! Cheers Willem On 6/23/20 9:31 PM, Iain Parris wrote: > Hi Willem, > > Excerpts from Willem's message of 2020-06-23 11:12:50 +0200: >> In our recent communication I expressed my great appreciation when I >> heard that my favorite email client has been rescued from a sad >> extinction. I have been using sup off and on for more than 8 years and >> in the mean time I have tried many others like mutt, mu4e, notmuch etc, >> but I keep coming back to sup as it simply works best for the way I like >> doing email. >> >> I am sending this follow up to the mailing list in the hope that there >> is additional interest in discussion about sup and the various linux >> distributions. > Thank you very much again for emailing, and for kicking off the > discussion about distributions / platforms. It's great to hear from > another happy sup user. I am exactly the same - I keep coming back to > sup. :-) > >> But, because of the problem that sup works only on ruby 2.3.3 and Arch >> uses a newer version of ruby, one has to use a workaround that is >> thankfully fully described on the Sup-ArchWiki which then directs you to >> the RVM-ArchWiki with good instructions for installing RVM and then sup. >> >> This RVM workaround is referred to in the Sup-ArchWiki as a temporary >> install, and I discovered why; one of the draw backs is that after some >> linux kernel updates sup stops working and an alias needs to be added to >> ~/.bashrc again. > The ArchWiki documentation is very good, and has often helped me in the > past because it is regularly widely applicable and clear documentation, > even for users like me of other Linux distributions. > > The key patch required for sup to run on later Ruby versions is > > - credit to Dan. > > This patch will be included in the upcoming next sup release, but in the > meantime I've checked on Arch Linux in a VM, and found a method to apply > the patch and run sup successfully using system Ruby. > > Pending the next sup release, I've updated ArchWiki right now with the > new workaround instructions for Arch Linux - and hope that it helps you, > and possibly others too! > > > > Please do let me know if that works for you. > >> This is why when you mentioned in your item (4) "Collaborate with major >> downstream packagers"; I thought it would be great if you included Arch >> Linux in this group as I believe sup fits in perfectly with the Arch >> Linux philosophy, one item of which is minimal bloat. I am currently >> using sup on Arch Linux with the i3 tiling window manager which I really >> enjoy; cutting edge and bloat free, although I still have to find the >> time to sort out some sup hooks. > Sounds good - I'll add Arch Linux to my mental list of distributions. > > I also have a note on my to-do list to update the sup wiki > with recent installation > instructions for various platforms. > > Does anyone else reading have any requests for other distribution or > platform? So far on my mental list is Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch, > ?MacPorts. > > Kind regards, > Iain