[Users] Claws Mail 3.18.0-1 for Windows unleashed!!

[wwp]

Hello Jonathan,


On Tue, 20 Jul 2021 14:06:18 -0700 Jonathan Boeing <jonathan at claws-mail.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 20 Jul 2021 08:19:58 +0200
> wwp <wwp at claws-mail.org> wrote:
> 
> > Nice to see a release for Windows users, good work and congratulations
> > for this first release you've made since you joined the effort!  
> 
> Thanks.  It's actually the second release after 3.17.8 back in March.

Well, must have missed the announce but in fact could not find one. Anyway!


> > Is there a list of the plug-ins currently available (or not) to
> > Windows users and eventually those who might be in a short (or less
> > short) future?  
> 
> The list of plugins on the Windows page is up to date:
> https://www.claws-mail.org/win32/
> 
> The Windows build includes:
> AddressKeeper
> AttRemover
> AttachWarner
> BSFilter
> Fancy
> FetchInfo
> Libravatar
> LiteHTML Viewer
> ManageSieve
> Notification
> PGP and S/Mime
> RSSyl
> SpamReport
> TNEF Parser
> vCalendar
> 
> For the 4.0.0 release, Windows loses the Fancy plugin due to WebKitGTK
> dropping support for Windows:
> https://www.mail-archive.com/webkit-gtk@lists.webkit.org/msg03246.html
> 
> As I understand it, the two options to get Fancy working again would be
> to port and maintain WebKitGTK for Windows:
> https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2017-August/029336.html
> 
> Or to port Fancy to use the WinCairo build of Webkit.  WinCairo is
> 64-bit only and only builds with MSVC on Windows, but they do make
> pre-built binaries and dependencies available.
> 
> WinCairo does have experimental support for building with clang-cl:
> https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=171618
> So dealing with C++ ABI incompatibilities might not be an issue if we
> add clang support to our build system.
> 
> Either way, I think we can file Fancy for GTK3 under "less short" :)
> 
> I've looked at porting a few other plugins with mixed results:
> PDF Viewer - dependencies build, and the Windows build is in progress
> Mail Archiver - dependencies build, but the plugin itself needs work to
> support Windows
> Dillo - dependencies don't build with mingw; Dillo on Windows needs
> cygwin/X11
> 
> Which leaves the unexplored plugins, by me at least, as:
> AcpiNotifier
> Bogofilter
> Clamd
> GData
> mailMBOX
> NewMail
> Perl
> Python
> SpamAssassin

Good to see such detailed status about the Windows port.

I highly doubt the acpinotifier will be portable. NewMail is quite
basic. Bogo, Clamd, SA, Perl and Python should not be a huge effort, as
they are "just" client of third-party APIs, not the worst thing to do,
but still some work to afford, and I'm glad that someone is taking care
of it again, now.


Regards,

-- 
wwp
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