Patches For Pine Going Away 177
md8mart writes to let us know about the imminent shutdown of the site that distributes Pine patches. From the RSS feed of Patches for Pine we read the following bad news for all Pine users: "The Department of Mathematics of the University of Washington will close the account that hosts my Patches for Pine site. I would like to thank the Department of Mathematics for having hosted this site for so many years. I do not have current plans to move this site, but this site will disappear on December 15, 2006. Thank you to everyone who supported me by positive feedback and encouragement to do this work through the years. I will update this information as it becomes available."
oh god no! (Score:3, Funny)
Rover (Score:2, Funny)
That's not what "pine" means (Score:5, Funny)
I don't care if pine is free or not. It's served me for many, many years. I use it daily, and it works well. It's not a gui app, either, though I'm not sure you were implying that it was.
As for what "pine" means, here is the truth: "Pine Is Not Enough".
That is false, and not terribly amusing. I had the great fortune to work for a number of years with one of pine's original developers. Over lunch one day, he told me that 'pine' isn't an acronym at all. But, he said, if it were to be made into a backronym [wikipedia.org], it was generally agreed that it should stand for "Pine Is a Neologist's Elm".
You all can figure out what 'pico' doesn't stand for.
-B
The Project Is Not Dead... (Score:5, Funny)
Well, I guess all that's left.. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:well there's always /usr/bin/mail (Score:5, Funny)
No more patches for pine? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:well there's always /usr/bin/mail (Score:3, Funny)
This is no longer true. I can't find the link at the moment, but someone has ported vim to it, as a module.