Re: [Evolution-hackers] OWA with "SessionGuard" [OT]

[Jules Colding <colding omesc com>]

On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 13:58 +0200, Philip Van Hoof wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 12:33 +0200, Jules Colding wrote:
> > > I'm interested in extracting the Camel-only parts of a Camel provider
> > > for distribution in tinymail (which is LGPL).
> > 
> > OK, just bear in mind that Brutus is GPL.
> 
> Is that a big problem for an LGPL library? I could keep that part of the
> library GPL, right? Maybe I could patch a version of Brutus in such a
> way that making a package that will work with tinymail is easy. Etc etc.

No problem as such. It just means that whatever Brutus touches will need
to be GPL too (just like you say).


> Probably things that we can discuss about sooner or later? :)

Sure ;-)


> > > I understand others are probably also interested in the Exchange
> > > calendaring and contact pieces and features, but initially I'm not
> > > interested in any such code or API.
> > 
> > e-b can currently do mail, calendaring and tasks. More features are in
> > the works.
> 
> I will only need the mail part. Which basically means having a
> CamelFolder and a CamelFolderSummary implementation.

OK. 


> > >  It's memory consumption shouldn't be
> > > extremely bad (if it reuses the CamelFolderSummary pieces, the mmap
> > > technique can probably be adapted in the Brutus Camel implementation,
> > > just like what I did for the other Camel providers a few weeks ago).
> > > 
> > > I have already completed this little-patch for evolution-exchange. I
> > > haven't yet tested it.
> > 
> > A patch is always welcome :-)
> 
> Right but that patch would also make Brutus incompatible with the normal
> Camel as shipped by Novell ;-).

No problem. It can be isolated in a configure option.

Best regards,
  jules