Re: Weekly SoC report (Thunderbird backend)

[Johann Petrak <johann petrak chello at>]

Pierre Östlund wrote:
> Time for another report (a day late unfortunately, sorry). The past 
> week has been... quite interesting. I've taken a turn and decided to 
> implement a Thunderbird extension instead of doing all parsing and 
> other low-level stuff myself. This will save a great load of code and 
> make things a lot easier.

I really think that this is a good turn. I think I have somewhere
sometime argued before that an extension would probably be the
cleaner and more flexible approach (though the API for
extension programmers seems to have severe design issues when
it comes to accessing headers etc. too) so I think this is
really good news.

Another plus of the extension approach could be that there are
quite a few TB extension developers out there, so there is
some hope that the community might start contributing at some
point.

Thanks for the good work!

Johann