Re: New mailbox interface and gmime messages

[Carlos Morgado <chbm chbm nu>]

On Wed, 26 Feb 2003 20:34:44 Magick wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've been slowly working on a new mailbox interface, using gmime as a 
> message-container.
> Currently it is still using libmutt, but it is pretty easy to switch it 
> for something else.
> 
> The patch is at:
> http://demands.xs4all.nl/~magick/libmailbox-4.patch.gz or
> http://demands.xs4all.nl/~magick/libmailbox-4.patch
> 
> I would really appreciate some/any 
> feedback...                                                                 
>               

I had a brief readthrough the patch (once over on the highlights - i hope).
>From what I understand you reused some code libmutt and libbalsa and used
gmime to parse through mbox. This is pretty much what I was thinking
however I didn't see a "libmailbox" comming, in fact I don't see exactly
how it fits in the new scheme of things. The way I was planning the 
required bits of libmutt would be moved directly into libbalsa without
need for further layers of APIs.
Libbalsa already provides a nice mailbox access API (remember it 
totally wraps libmutt) and the UI code knows about it.
(include the pgp and OE support threads here :))

I'm thinking

+--------------+
    src (UI)
+--------------+
    libbalsa
+--------------+
 gmime | (foo)
+--------------+


The way I see it 2.0 is a UI consolidation dev cycle with non-essencial
backend work being defered to 2.1 (which doesn't mean 2.1 will not be 
open tomorrow).  

cheers

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