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: