Paul J Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Dan Weber wrote: > >> Glib is all about the idea of OOP in C. Its very bloated, and is >> worse than C++. .. > > Me, I prefer to code in stead of running into language debates. If > anything, glib/gmime allows us to cleanup the code *now*, using a > well defined, maintained, documented and widly supported api.
I wasn't a big fan of hitching ourselves to the Glib bandwagon, either. My solution was to put together our own sort of Glib by finding best-of-breed implementations of whatever we needed. MIME parsing, data structures, etc. there's lots of code out there, and we'd just have to integrate them all and maintain that integration. But, oh wait, that's what Glib has already done. And so there we go... >> Well that may be a benefit, have you looked into libmailutils. Its a >> library for the sole purpose of mail related tasks. It was written for >> mailutils which provides its own imap and pop3, tho, libmailutils can be >> seperated. > > The logical conclusion for using libmailutils would be to reduce > dbmail to a storage type for mailutils. And in the process become part of an official GNU project over which we'd have little or no room for fun or freedom beyond the rights granted by the GNU General Stallman version 2, or, at your option, any later version :-P Aaron --
