Re: Update on gmime in balsa + some TLS comments

[Carlos Morgado <chbm gnome org>]

On Thu, 04 Sep 2003 09:17:16, Brian Stafford wrote:
> On 2003.09.03 17:03, Carlos Morgado wrote:
>> 
>> On Wed, 03 Sep 2003 16:22:11, Pawel Salek wrote:
>>>
>> 
>>>> . I guess you stole libesmtp siobufs cause they give you ssl and network  
>>>> goodness but I don't enjoy having 2 copies of it linked into balsa. this  
>>>> needs some thinking :)
>>> 
>>> This is probably not worth to optimize at this stage.
>>>
>> 
>> glib has some IO stuff (gmime uses it iirc). I'd say this would be a  
>> correcter thing to use but I won't compromise to this statment till I have  
>> an harder look at it :)
> 
> 
> maybe, maybe not - though since I wrote siobufs I'm biased.  The reason  
> libESMTP didn't use glib was primarily portability and few dependencies and

balsa already has a glib dep :) I was thinking more in the direction glib io  
channels can be integrated into the gtk loop, however I never actually played  
with it myself (hence my original reserves)


> I've already used the siobufs code elsewhere and have been able to do so  
> quite easily, which suggests the API is about right for generic use.   
> Shortly I will need to write a pop3 client (libPOP3?) for another project  
> so it seems like it might be an idea to split libESMTP into two.  This

My original comment about ripping siobufs into balsa was, do we really want  
to have 2 copies linked into balsa ? (ie, split siobufs or conditionally  
build balsa/siobuf)


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