Re: [sup-talk] Sup Release 0.14.0

[Gaute Hope <eg@gaute.vetsj.com>]

Excerpts from Matthieu Rakotojaona's message of 2013-08-15 20:30:52 +0200:
> Thank you !
> 
> I've tried the install sup via the gem on a naked machine and I've faced
> a few problems:
> 
> * There is a bug in rubymail as pointed in [0]. I see it hasn't been
>   merged yet and doubt it will ever be. I replaced the upstream one with
>   the one from your repo (1) and it works as needed. Can we use a
>   rmail-sup, specific to us, just for the time we use this lib, just
>   like ncursesw-sup ?

Yeah, was a bit hesitant to go there, but I guess it is reasonably
sensible fix :) I'm OK with it. I would rather see us get Mail running
(writing this email from the use-mail branch, seamlessly using RMail on
the same index), but it is still a while to go..
 
> * There was a problem with the unicode gem. I had an old version of
> gem running (you need >= 2.0.2 as stated in [2] and followings). Here
> are the steps that fixed the problem:
> 
>   Update gem: $ sudo gem update --system
> 
>   Reinstall the unicode gem: $ gem uninstall unicode $ gem install
>   unicode

Ah nice catch, we should put this somewhere in the wiki..! troubleshooting?
 
> * Those damn encoding problems struck me. We're trying to fix_encoding a
>   bunch of Strings here and there and one of them at least is a frozen
>   string so it doesn't work. See PR130 [3] for this.

Nice, its extremly hackishy, but those mails and user inputs just don't
make any sense.. :D Your PR should be good to merge.
 
> Apart from that, it works well. Thank you guys for the hard work !
> You're making me ashamed of not being very participative in this,
> though :)

Yey, thanks!
 
Cheers, Gaute