Re: Gnome Mail clients (Re: Is Balsa alive?)

[rms39 columbia edu (Russell Steinthal)]

> Hi Russell,
> 
> No, there is no reason why you should stop developping your library.
> 
> Checking for mail and reading/sending mail on all kind of store/server
> are not exactely the same. But the best reason why you should not stop
> is that a 15% coded project is nearly not more than vaporware.
> (and this is actually the status of "groomf", my client)
> I always thaught that, until a package is distributed and runnable, one must
> consider it does not exist. 

Ok, sounds good to me.  One thing that might be useful, however, 
would be to consider unifying the CORBA interfaces: for example, 
there's no reason why we can't have a GNOME::Mail interface and move 
my code to GNOME::Mail::Check; that way we can potentially have a 
unified library at some point.  (There could also be 
GNOME::Mail::Fetch (perhaps as a CORBA binding for fetchmail), or 
GNOME::Mail::Read for a real mail-reading library...)

What do the CORBA experts think about this?  Is that a good idea, and 
is it even feasible or useful?  If we're going to change the 
namespace, I'd like to do it sooner, rather than later, while my code 
is still very "pre-stable." :)

-Russell

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Russell Steinthal
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