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[Ulrich Mueller <ulm@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>>>>> On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Uday S Reddy wrote:

> The only one of these that I regularly use is vm-ps-print.  I use bits
> and and pieces from vm-pine and vm-rfaddons.  So, it will be difficult
> for me to maintain stuff that I never use.

Hi Uday,

here it is vm-pcrisis, vm-pgg, vm-ps-print that I use regularly, and
vm-w3m sporadically.

> I suppose some of these libraries are just interfaces to other
> applications or other emacs packages (vm-ps-print, vm-grepmail,
> vm-w3, vm-w3m). vm-pgg is probably similar but it looks more
> substantial. We should probably integrate these into VM in due
> course.

I agree.

> The remaining libraries are bells and whistles add-on's whose
> 'upstream' maintainers have moved on or become inactive.  So, all we
> can do is to throw up our hands and say "that is not part of VM."

But this shouldn't prevent us from applying user-contributed bug fixes
for these libraries. I also think we should still distribute them with
VM, if necessary in the contrib directory.

Ulrich