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Sparrow for Windows was just a few weeks away

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Re: Sparrow for Windows was just a few weeks away

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Post by everydaypanos »

mronge wrote: post #30
redcircle wrote: post #21

Something doesn't make sense. From the ambiguity of your description, it sounds as though you own the code, and that you had no formal business relationship with Sparrow, and that you accepted no money from Sparrow (it is really strange that Sparrow would even encourage you into such a position, and that you would put yourself there --- you left them in the situation where they could turn your work down, and develop…

I do not believe this was officially supported by the Sparrow team as he make it seems...

The truth is the Sparrow team is a Mac only team. They didn't care much for Windows. If at all. To test the Windows builds, Din Viet used a virtual machine running inside OS X..

Re: Sparrow for Windows was just a few weeks away

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Post by irunbackwards »

seltzered_ wrote: post #10

dude. kickstarter. go. Sparrow is one of the few reasons I stick with using a mac, and am somewhat fearful of taking another job using windows again. I even tried having outlook configured in a mode to look more sparrow-ish to realize it didn't work without a real "sparrow" experience.

I've dreamed of Sparrow for Windows for a while now, but Postbox is holding me over. It's a good alternative -- it has a traditional, but sexy user interface.

Re: Sparrow for Windows was just a few weeks away

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Post by rvkennedy »

statictype wrote: post #9

Since hearing that Thunderbird is going to start collecting dust, I've been looking for a decent Windows client and was wishing Sparrow worked on Windows. So this makes me even more sad. I wish Google would do the right thing and open-source it like they did with Etherpad.

Comms (www.comms.io) is my project, it's a lightweight IMAP client for which Windows is the initial platform. The alpha is a few weeks off.

Re: Sparrow for Windows was just a few weeks away

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Post by EarlofGrey »

everydaypanos wrote: post #31
mronge wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I do not believe this was officially supported by the Sparrow team as he make it seems...

The truth is the Sparrow team is a Mac only team. They didn't care much for Windows. If at all. To test the Windows builds, Din Viet used a virtual machine running inside OS X..

Yeah but where did you come in? Why you? Why were you working on a product that you had nothing to do with?

I just don't get it at all. Why did you give free labour and free time to a for profit company you had no stake in? See why we are confused?

Re: Sparrow for Windows was just a few weeks away

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Post by statictype »

cdh wrote: post #14
statictype wrote: post #9

Since hearing that Thunderbird is going to start collecting dust, I've been looking for a decent Windows client and was wishing Sparrow worked on Windows. So this makes me even more sad. I wish Google would do the right thing and open-source it like they did with Etherpad.

I've been using Postbox, and I couldn't be happier with it.

Postbox was my next solution. Is it better than Thunderbird?

I've been somewhat happy with Thunderbird actually, in terms of performance and stability. It's just that the whole codebase seems unwieldy (try developing extensions for it) and may not be around a lot longer.

Re: Sparrow for Windows was just a few weeks away

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Post by iamdave »

gonzo wrote: post #37

Hate to be that guy, but: http://www.theverge.com/2012/7/21/3174803/sparrow-for-window...

Corollary: I absolutely hate it when media outlets use the term "a source". Yes, I do understand that sometimes 'source' is used because the other party requested or requires anonymity for the continuity of their current endeavors or whatever other reason.

But with the current state of news delivery operating at Warp 10 with the added bonus of somehow being able to run a hyperdrive engine at the same time and less research actively being done before a story is thoroughly debunked, it irks me.

Re: Sparrow for Windows was just a few weeks away

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Post by bad_user »

ricardobeat wrote: post #28

> I know that Europe cannot really maintain a talented team like the one Dom and Dinh Viet would need to take Sparrow to new heights. Really? All of Europe can't provide a team for an e-mail client?

Google disagrees. The author should really check out the work done by their office in Zurich, which also works on GMail.

Re: Sparrow for Windows was just a few weeks away

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Post by m0nastic »

iamdave wrote: post #38
gonzo wrote: post #37

Hate to be that guy, but: http://www.theverge.com/2012/7/21/3174803/sparrow-for-window...

Corollary: I absolutely hate it when media outlets use the term "a source". Yes, I do understand that sometimes 'source' is used because the other party requested or requires anonymity for the continuity of their current endeavors or whatever other reason. But with the current state of news delivery operating at Warp 10 with the added bonus of somehow being able to run a hyperdrive engine at the same time and less re…

I think it's especially silly in the case of a "source" from a really small startup.

This isn't like a "source" at Proctor and Gamble, it's what, like one of five people?

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