Re: Major refactoring proposal for pre or post 1.0

[Philip Van Hoof <spam pvanhoof be>]

On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 15:14 +0200, Philip Van Hoof wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> This is a major refactoring proposal for or pre or post 1.0. It depends
> on the amount of people who will join me on designing and implementing
> this whether it will be in or out a first release.
> 
> It has a major impact on the design of tinymail internally. It has a
> significant impact on the API if you don't use the standard ui
> components of tinymail. If you do, you will not notice it.
> 
> http://tinymail.org/trac/tinymail/wiki/HelpRedesignGettingFolders
> 
> I think the current idea that I've put there is more or less the
> direction we should be looking at. I'm of course open to suggestions.

This one *really* needs our brains guys. The s/Iface//g and s/_IFACE//g
is just monkey work. It's nothing design specific, it's only about how
tinymail looks to the outside world that only cares about type-names.

This, however, is actual design and it's an important not tackled issue.

I remember Chris discussing this with me on IRC. I remember you told me
you where planning to look at it some weekend. What's your opinion in
this Chris?

I tried starting to implement this. But I figure I wouldn't be finished
before this evening. So I decided to revert the changes in my local
checkout: I can't continue working on it next week (holiday reasons).

If somebody goes for it the next weeks .. people with SVN access are
allowed to make a branch for this. Or just give me a bunch of diffs and
SVN comments that I need to execute.

I don't think it's hard to figure out how the current implementation
works. It's very very simple (and therefore not really scalable and that
to me means not suitable).


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