On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 05:07:45AM +0000, Duncan wrote: > Jay posted on Tue, 30 Apr 2013 09:25:24 +0800 as excerpted: > > > I know this won't make it into version 1.0 at this late date, maybe not > > even in 1.1, > > FWIW, 1.0 has been at the top of the changelog for years, thru various > lead developers and in fact a full rewrite from C into C++, so when/if > 1.0 happens is more or less arbitrary, but from my perspective (as a user > and list participant since the gnome-1-pan era, since 2002 so over a > decade now), pan is now 1.0-feature-complete, having gotten in the last > year or two both a replacement for the old-pan rules in the form of the > auto-* actions (preferences, actions tab), and the last couple long- > missing features to fill things out, binary posting and secure-connection > ssl/tls support (along with several other less major features). So from > my perspective, it's ready for a 1.0 as soon as the current devs deem it > stable enough. =:^)
Alas, I don't believe Pan is sufficiently mature for a 1.0 release in 2013. Or even 2000 for that matter. - No Auto-save: messages being worked on are not automatically saved, so if something kills Pan while you are editing a message, that message is gone forever; - No Sent Items: messages that you send are not kept anywhere, unless you manually save them as a draft before sending, so if you post a message and it gets eaten by the receiving news server, it is gone forever; - Lousy default file names: saving drafts apparently defaults to whatever file name you last used, regardless of the subject line of the message you are working on; - Ignoring 30 year old UI guidelines, leading to data-loss: when saving drafts, Pan does not warn you when you are about to override an existing file, so it is trivially easy to override existing drafts; - Poor handling of HTML attachments: HTML attachments are displayed inline as raw text, instead of handled gracefully (e.g. shown as an attachment). These issues are the difference between a polished and professional product, and something with sharp corners and splinters that will catch you if you're not constantly on your guard. Oh, and I must admit that these issues may be fixed in the latest version of Pan. I may be a tad behind the times. But the default version of Pan provided by current Debian (if not others) still shows all these issues. Although I suppose that moving to a 1.0 release might encourage the Linux distros to use that 1.0 release instead of older versions... -- Steven _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
