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I used 'most' a few years ago because of the windowing support (this is before 'screen' did get support for vertical split). Also I did love about 'most' that i
by txutxu 12y ago
I used 'most' a few years ago because of the windowing support (this is before 'screen' did get support for vertical split). Also I did love about 'most' that it used to colorize manpages, when other pagers didn't.
I stopped using it, like 4 years ago, when someone did told me on IRC that it was unmaintained and did have some bugs.
Note that I did never notice any 'bug' in my time as 'most' user, even if they may exist, and indeed, it's still available at least in all Debian versions.
It's curious that distributions are able to "maintain" a package (maybe even with custom patches) which is not maintained or updated upstream, for years.
It's encouraging to see actions like the one performed by this IllumOS developer. If a program is opensource, we can fork, improve and share. Or as users, we can take a look at the code when making choices, lots of people forget this in favor of search engine recommendations.
- e12e 12y agoThe level of love packages receive varies -- I'm a great fan of Debian, but in the case of "most" support appears to be less than stellar from the Debian side: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?which=maint&data=mako@debian.org&archive=no&raw=yes&bug-rev=yes&pend-exc=fixed&pend-exc=done#_1_4_5 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?which=maint&da...
- voltagex_ 12y agoI think you mean https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?package=most https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?package=most - which doesn't look too bad.
- e12e 12y agoWell, yes. In either of the links -- I was thinking about the two normal-priority forwarded bugs for "most" (files starting with dash, sigpipe) and their age...
- dredmorbius 12y agoA lot of stable software really doesn't need a whole lot of tweaking. It works, it's stable, modifications break things. Related to a discussion I've been having recently on systemd.