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wth is IMSP and is anyone out there using cyrus-imspd? October 5, 2007

Posted by Tobias Scherbaum in : Gentoo , 3comments

This afternoon Christian and Jakub were discussing the “future” of cyrus-imspd on #gentoo-dev, i.e. is it worth fixing it or is it a candidate for another last rite? As the maintainer of other cyrus packages (i.e. cyrus-imapd and cyrus-imap-admin) i joined their discussion.

The cyrus website states, cyrus-imspd-1.7b is considered to be the “final version” while a newer 1.8 exists on their FTP, A handful of bugs w/ cyrus-imspd in Gentoo’s Portage were submitted to bugs.gentoo.org a while ago. Though this one is considered feature complete (other people would call it: dead) upstream the currently open bugs for cyrus-imspd in Gentoo’s Bugzilla were easy to fix (that’s what Christian said) so the conclusion was to a) fix it, b) remove the x86 stable keyword and c) keep it for now until another breakage occurs.

On a sidenote we wondered about what cyrus-imspd is actually doing or at was least designed for. Their website states

“The IMSP server is used for storing application preferences and address book data in a shared location. Few applications support IMSP preferences and address books.”

So, is anyone out there actually using cyrus-imspd (on Gentoo?) … if so please leave a comment and enlighten us! :)

Happy Birthday SGI! October 5, 2007

Posted by Tobias Scherbaum in : Me, Myself and I, SGI, Spielzeug , add a comment

Pro Linux berichtet über den 25. Geburtstag von SGI, ich schliesse mich den Glückwünschen an - immerhin war eine SGI Indy mein erster nicht mit Intel-CPU bestückter Computer :)