Re: Software Quality rant (was Re: Large email account)

2004-12-21 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, Earl R Shannon wrote: > I don't want to sound like I'm defending poorly written software. BUT, > If it doesn't look pretty people won't want to use it. And if no one is > going to use your software, why write it? What do you want to use to store your email? Cyrus or MS Exchan

Re: Software Quality rant (was Re: Large email account)

2004-12-21 Thread Earl R Shannon
Hello, I don't want to sound like I'm defending poorly written software. BUT, If it doesn't look pretty people won't want to use it. And if no one is going to use your software, why write it? Again, I'm not defending insecure and otherwise poorly written software. I'm saying that users want pretty

Re: Software Quality rant (was Re: Large email account)

2004-12-21 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, Michael Loftis wrote: > And I have to agree with Henrique here, and not just because he keeps Cyrus > backported for my older Woody installs :) Heh. Thanks :) > Working at a web host we deal with all of the major PHP packages. I won't > name any names, but most of them are

Re: Software Quality rant (was Re: Large email account)

2004-12-21 Thread Michael Loftis
--On Tuesday, December 21, 2004 08:53 -0200 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, Simon Matter wrote: The nice thing about Thunderbird is that it works fine. Same goes for recent kmail versions. Mulberry and PINE may do it better, but they don't look better.

Re: Software Quality rant (was Re: Large email account)

2004-12-21 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, Simon Matter wrote: > > On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, Simon Matter wrote: > >> The nice thing about Thunderbird is that it works fine. Same goes for > >> recent kmail versions. Mulberry and PINE may do it better, but they > >> don't look better. > > > > We are talking Unix here (industr

Re: Software Quality rant (was Re: Large email account)

2004-12-21 Thread Simon Matter
> On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, Simon Matter wrote: >> The nice thing about Thunderbird is that it works fine. Same goes for >> recent kmail versions. Mulberry and PINE may do it better, but they >> don't >> look better. > > We are talking Unix here (industrial strenght tools, focus on doing I replied to s

Software Quality rant (was Re: Large email account)

2004-12-21 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, Simon Matter wrote: > The nice thing about Thunderbird is that it works fine. Same goes for > recent kmail versions. Mulberry and PINE may do it better, but they don't > look better. We are talking Unix here (industrial strenght tools, focus on doing things right, etc) or are