Clients should use normal git-clone/git-fetch, or NNTP clients
if they want to import mail into their personal inboxes.
+public-inbox is developed on Debian GNU/Linux systems and will
+never depend on packages outside of the "main" component of
+the "stable" distribution, currently Debian 9.x ("stretch")
+
+Most packages are available in other GNU/Linux distributions;
+and FreeBSD support can happen.
+
TODO: this still needs to be documented better,
also see the scripts/ and sa_config/ directories in the source tree
public-inbox requires a number of other packages to access its full
functionality. The core tools are, of course:
-* Git
-* Perl
+* Git (1.8.0+, 2.6+ for writing v2 repositories)
+* Perl 5.8+
* SQLite (needed for Xapian use)
To accept incoming mail into a public inbox, you'll likely want:
rpm: perl-DBD-SQLite
(for NNTP service or gzipped mbox over HTTP)
- - Danga::Socket deb: libdanga-socket-perl
- rpm: perl-Danga-Socket
- (for bundled HTTP and NNTP servers)
-
- Net::Server deb: libnet-server-perl
rpm: perl-Net-Server
(for HTTP/NNTP servers as standalone daemons,
rpm: perl-Socket6
(pulled in by SpamAssassin and Net::Server,
only necessary if using IPv6 with
- Plack::Middleware::AccessLog or similar)
+ Plack::Middleware::AccessLog or similar
+ on Perl <= 5.12)
+
+ - Crypt::CBC deb: libcrypt-cbc-perl
+ (for the rarely-used PublicInbox::Unsubscribe)
On Fedora systems, you'll probably also end up wanting
perl-Test-HTTP-Server-Simple, perl-Devel-Peek, and perl-IPC-Run to run the