Lightning removed from ThunderBird?
Miroslav Lachman
000.fbsd at quip.cz
Wed May 23 07:03:39 UTC 2018
Andrea Venturoli wrote on 2018/05/23 07:07:
> Hello.
>
> As an heavy user of ThunderBird + Ligthning I was a bit worried when I
> saw the following commit message this morning:
>
>> mail/thunderbird: drop LIGHTNING as it's unusable after r470672
>
> I understand this was later backed out, but I'd like to ask some questions.
>
>
> Is Lightning going away or is this temporary?
> In the former case, are there any suggested replacements?
> Or can Lightning be installed independently of the port?
>
> Any pointer to what's going on here more generally?
>
> Has this anything to do with the (imminent?) switch to version 60?
>
>
> Sorry to bother, but I just would like to avoid being caught by surprise
> if/when Lightning will suddenly stop working one morning...
Just "me too" - I am using Seamonkey, currently in version 2.49.1 where
Lightning lo longer works even if I have LIGHTNING=on selected in
options. I will try 2.49.3 soon but I am worrying about future of the
Lightning.
Are there any compatible replacement usable on FreeBSD desktop?
Miroslav Lachman
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