RE: [Evolution] Is there a news reader planned?

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj helixcode com>]

We're one step ahead of you, er...make that 5 steps

We have 1 mime parser that all the providers share, or can share at least

Jeff

On Wed, 31 May 2000, Elan Feingold wrote:
> Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 10:11:22 -0500
> From: "Elan Feingold" <elan jeeves net>
> Subject: RE: [Evolution] Is there a news reader planned?
>
> > > But I thought that was the point of using components.
> > Evolution does a good
> > > job of using the gnome-pim for it's calendar portion...I don't
> > see why it
> > > couldn't do as good a job with pan.  Am I missing something?
> >
> > gnome-pim had to be massively re-massaged to be used in Evolution.
> > And the new calendar/tasks system is very different from what you saw
> > in gnome-pim.  New GUI, new engine, less bugs, more correctness.
>
> I would think that a lot of the code (MIME parsing, message composition,
> etc.) would be repeated code between Evolution and Pan.  My personal
> uninformed opinion is that it would be easier to simply provide the
> appropriate NNTP protocols to Evolution, and let it handle all messages
> in a
> uniform way above that layer.
>
> -elan
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