[tinysofa-devel] classic future plans

[Mikael Bak]

On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 10:58, Jaakko Heinonen wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 10:10:41 +0100, Mikael Bak wrote:
> > I would miss both dialog and courier-imap. In some cases even swup.
> 
> Seems that some people want to keep courier. For me it's ok to keep it
> if gda maintains it.
> 

Let's hope he or someone else will then.

> > Courier-imap is easy to use together with ldap and mysql. And most
> > importantly has quota support. What would tinysofa classic replace
> > courier-imap with that contains these possibilities?
> 
> Cyrus IMAP server. (The "easy" part may be arguable. :)
> 

Indeed :-) I'd say it's bloody difficult and akward. But as everything
else, it's a matter of taste.

> > Swup because sometimes it's actually easier to automate updates with
> > swup than with apt. Or am I wrong? If I am, then please tell me :-)
> 
> I think you are wrong. Have you seen the apt-cron package and
> http://tinysofa.org/documentation/index.cgi?UsingApt "Scheduling
> Automatic APT Updates". (The doc applies also to classic.)

Thanks for the link. I knew about the apt-cron package, but I have a
hard time figure out how the apt-cron package can find out when to issue
a normal "upgrade" and when a "dist-upgrade" is needed.

Regards,
Mikael