[MlMt] Any news?

[Benny Kjær Nielsen]

On 26 Feb 2016, at 10:25, Thomas Eckhold wrote:

> I wonder if you could and want to share some news about the project 
> [„Graphics 
> Designer“](http://sites.fastspring.com/freron/product/graphicsdesigner)?

Oh, how time flies. Good question. I've been thinking I should take that 
down since it was probably not the best way to handle the issue of 
graphics and visual design. I rarely get contributions now and I believe 
it's at about 62%. Most of that money is already used on a new 
application icon which I'm using on my own version of MailMate right 
now.

Let me take this opportunity to do a small status update (just for this 
list). Some might have noticed that I'm some times using a version of 
MailMate with this `X-Mailer` header: `2.0BETAr6002`. This is almost 
identical to the 1.9.x releases except for two things: A lot of changes 
with regard to how HTML is handled when replying/forwarding (the 
achilles heel of MailMate) and a new headers view.

I don't usually have two branches of MailMate. Most of my changes and 
fixes are quickly released in 1.9.x test releases and this is how I 
prefer to work, but this has led to some confusion. A lot of users (and 
non-users) have the impression that I'm working on a huge new separate 
2.0 release, but this has never been the case. MailMate has moved from 
version 1.5.3 to 1.9.3 since the crowd funding more than 2 years ago and 
as most of you know then the release notes are a mile long.

The reason I do have a separate 2.0 beta running myself now (again, only 
with a few new features) is that I want to change how I work on new 
features. The official 1.9.x releases are only going to be for fixes and 
minor changes and the 2.0 beta gets all the new features. When I think 
it's ready then I'll bump the beta to be the official MailMate 2.0 
release and then go back to a single branch of development.

In other words, I hope to release the 2.0 beta as soon as possible to 
stop any speculation that something completely different than 1.9.x is 
in the works. The 2.0 beta is still too unstable to be released. To be 
honest, I'm not making progress as quickly as I would like -- primarily 
because of too much incoming email pointing out issues and bugs in the 
1.9.x releases. I'm sure most of you know that feeling since you are 
using MailMate to handle your emails :-)

Hmm, I'm afraid I just added to the confusion now :-)

Have a nice weekend.

-- 
Benny
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