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["Sergey A. Lipnevich" <sergey AT sourcemage.org>]

I agree with Jeremy. More often than not "stable" means "stale." That's 
how open source seems to work, everyone likes the new stuff :-).

Arwed von Merkatz wrote:

> > I'm not talking about a CVS version, I'm talking about a released devel
> > version, such as mutt 1.5.9.  It is *more* compatible with other stuff than
> > the "stable" 1.4.x branch because 1.4.x is so old (1.4.x tries to require
> > older auto tools than we even ship right now, but our build fudges around
> > calling them the way that would error out).  There's several distros that
> > only ship mutt 1.5.x and left 1.4.x in the dirt some time ago.  Yes, this
> > is the mutt dev's fault for taking so long to get around to cutting 1.6,
> > but this is exactly what I mean by "arbitrary version schemes".
> >    
>
> I still don't see why the devel version should be the default. I've been
> using mutt 1.4 for ages and don't have any problems with it.
> A user who wants to use 1.5 can still choose it.