[MacPorts] #52297: mutt @1.6: make it obsolete in favor of neomutt

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#52297: mutt @1.6: make it obsolete in favor of neomutt
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  Reporter:  leonardo.schenkel@…  |      Owner:  macports-tickets@…
      Type:  enhancement          |     Status:  closed
  Priority:  Normal               |  Milestone:
 Component:  ports                |    Version:  2.3.4
Resolution:  fixed                |   Keywords:
      Port:  mutt                 |
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Comment (by leonardo.schenkel@…):

 Hi Vkuznet,

 I am sympathetic to your concerns. However, I think your concerns are more
 theoretical than real. NeoMutt is supposed to be a strict superset of
 Mutt, so all features in Mutt are present in NeoMutt and they have not
 been changed in any way. What NeoMutt does have is additional features
 that Mutt still does not have (but the intent of the project is to
 upstream all patches) — if you don't use them you won't even know they're
 there because they should be invisible to you. NeoMutt for you should work
 the same as vanilla Mutt 1.7.

 Note that other `mutt` packages such as the one in Debian incorporate a
 number of patches, including many from NeoMutt. I believe most distros
 don't provide vanilla Mutt because it didn't have any stable release for a
 long time — development has just been picked up this year. This does not
 seem to affect or break most people's workflow.

 Of course, nothing is perfect and there may be something in NeoMutt that
 breaks things for you. Please try it out and let us know if there are any.
 With that information in hand we'll be more informed to make future
 decisions.

 To alleviate some of your concerns, I do plan in the future to add more
 variants to `neomutt` and allow disabling all patches that can be disabled
 by the configure script. Hopefully that will make the resulting build
 close enough to vanilla Mutt to make more users happy. I would like to
 stress that this level of configuration is not available in many distros
 and it does not seem to be a problem in practice — and once again, even
 with all patches enabled NeoMutt should not diverge from Mutt if you're
 only using features present in Mutt. Please do report if it's not the
 case.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/52297#comment:7>
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