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Published: Monday, 25 April 2022 - 13:14:05 (+0200)
Written by: AndreasM
The development of the well-known e-mail program YAM has been discontinued.
amiga-news.de writes:
There are many reasons for this: Basically, over the years it has become increasingly clear how difficult it is to develop something for the Amiga platform. The lack of progress with the operating system itself makes it more and more difficult to make Amiga programs in general and YAM in particular fit for the current (security) standards compared to other systems (Linux, Windows, macOS). Virtually every feature has to be developed completely in-house for every platform (AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS 4, AROS, MorphOS) because the respective operating system itself doesn't do it. So you have to port the complete SSL system in the latest version to all platforms. If UTF8 is to be supported as a universal standard for encoding any text, you have to develop the complete conversion in both directions 100% yourself, because the operating system supports UTF8 only insufficiently - if at all. In return, however, the expectations of the users are linked to the progress of the other systems: an Amiga should still be able to do the same as other systems. This expectation can be fulfilled to a certain extent, but only with enormous development effort. However, this enormous additional effort stands in contrast to the ever decreasing number of developers. The remaining YAM developers have completely detached themselves from the Amiga and are now pursuing projects on other platforms.
In the past, it has also not been possible to get new developers interested in working on YAM (and also on all other projects). Irrespective of this: YAM (like the other projects) is an open source project. If you like, you are welcome to create a fork of it and start developing immediately.
https://github.com/jens-maus/yam
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