Comments on: Little timeline of Sylpheed-Claws

By: Colin

Colin — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 19:21:23 +0000

Leonidas: very true. Apart that it’s actually ‘no one could maintain it’, as none of the still active developers use Windows.
Werner Koch is trying to do some work in this area, but his build available in the gpg4win.org package isn’t complete, and lacks important things like IMAP support or SSL support…

By: Leonidas

Leonidas — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 19:17:59 +0000

I can just guess: maybe it’s also becuase the official Win32 port was dropped. Although I can understand that no one wanted to maintain it, it’s still a pity. So maybe some people take the Cygwin port (which isn’t in the statistic), some go to Sylpheed which has an actively maintained Win32 port.
That could be an explanation.

By: mones

mones — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 05:02:55 +0000

I think the "more distros package Sylpheed-Claws" joined with Sylpheed-Claws gaining popularity in those distros are the key factors.

By: hb

hb — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 08:01:22 +0000

Also, the users mailing list got a little less active recently. Maybe the progress in main drove some users back to main (whose users-ML got more active). Main also has a similar but higher version number, which might have a psychological effect (though I’m _NOT_ voting for a version number race).

By: JG

JG — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 19:53:06 +0000

nice :) i just looked it up and i guess i started with claws 0.7.5, at least that’s my oldest email with claws i can find :)
regarding the downloads, i’m nearly always using cvs so that won’t count either.