Re: [Evolution] IMAP rewrite

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 07:17, Ettore Perazzoli wrote:
> Hi Timo,
>
> On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 00:43, Timo Sirainen wrote: 
> > I remember reading something of IMAP rewrite, how far did that get? Is
> > there still a chance of getting that soon?
> >
> > I'm thinking of fixing the IMAP code myself soon, unless there's some
>
> This sounds great!  Right now most of the team is focusing on the GNOME
> 2 port and this doesn't give us much space for improving the backends;
> so help in that direction would be welcome. 
>
> On the other hand, we have decided to not add any new features to
> Evolution until a stable GNOME 2 port gets released; so these changes
> need to be postponed until then as well.
>
> Of course, this doesn't mean that the work can't start now. :-)  The
> IMAP rewrite could be maintained as a separate branch, and merged in
> after 1.4 is released. 

There's no need for any of this.  It can be setup as a separate camel
provider which isn't compiled by default, using a different prefix.  It
could even just be compiled separately from the main tree and plugged in
at run-time.

I'm talking just the imap code here, not anything else.

> > larger changes coming out soon. Was there some plans to change the Camel
> > API? I remember reading something about it.. Anyway, what I want fixed:
>
> If we start throwing in ideas for a better IMAP implementation, we
> should probably consider the issues with the current offline support as
> well?..

Unless we decide to make it properly atomic, this is independent of the
backend code.  And even if we did its not that hard (and would probably
be inside camel).