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authorMatthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>2009-01-04 14:23:32 +0000
committerMatthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>2009-01-04 14:23:32 +0000
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Revise future plans part a bit.
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@@ -9,15 +9,15 @@ Abbreviations in parentheses are the maintainers who committed the respective
change. MA = Matthias Andree, ESR = Eric S. Raymond, RF = Rob Funk.)
# ADVANCE WARNING OF FEATURES TO BE REMOVED OR CHANGED IN FUTURE VERSIONS
-(There are no plans to remove these features from a 6.3.X release, but they may
-be removed from a 6.4.0 or newer release.)
+(There are no plans to remove features from a 6.3.X release, but they may be
+removed from a 6.4.0 or newer release.)
* The MX and host alias DNS lookups that fetchmail performs in multidrop mode
are based on assumptions that are rarely met in practice, somewhat defective,
- deprecated and may be removed from a future fetchmail version. They have
- never supported IPv6 (including IPv6-mapped IPv4).
+ deprecated and may be removed from a future fetchmail version.
+ They have never supported IPv6 (including IPv6-mapped IPv4).
Non-DNS based alias keywords such as "aka" will remain in fetchmail.
* The monitor and interface options may be removed from a future fetchmail
- version as they are not reasonably portable.
+ version as they are not reasonably portable across operating systems.
* POP2 is obsolete, support will be removed from a future fetchmail version.
* RPOP is obsolete, support will be removed from a future fetchmail release.
* --sslcertck will become a default setting in a future fetchmail version.
@@ -39,6 +39,10 @@ be removed from a 6.4.0 or newer release.)
cause fetchmail to terminate - it was broken for many years.
* Support for operating systems that are not sufficiently POSIX compliant may be
removed or operation on such systems may be suboptimal for future releases.
+ This means that fetchmail may only continue to work on C99 and POSIX 2001
+ based systems.
+* The maintainer may migrate fetchmail to C++ with STL or C#, and impose further
+ requirements (dependencies), such as Boost or other class libraries.
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