Re: [Evolution-hackers] IMAP4REV1

["Susarla Parthasarathi" <sparthasarathi novell com>]

On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 08:18 +0000, Not Zed  wrote:
> We need to make a decision about imap4rev1.
> 
> We can either:
>  Leave it there, maybe add a warning about how buggy it is.  We're well
> beyond string freeze though.
> 
Leaving it there will have people using it and filing bugs on it again.
Unless we decided to put in a message saying "Bugs on this not
entertained".

>  Leave it there, but hack the code in nasty ways so that you can't
> create new accounts using it.  Its a messy nasty hack.
> 
>  Remove it from the build entirely, and then add new migration code to
> switch it to the older 'imap' implementation, or some other equivalent
> switch over mechanism.  The folder paths, foldernames, cache, summary
> files, are all probably so different as to make this a lot of work.

Migration code, is a pretty good idea. IMHO we should do this.


Cheers,
partha